01.04.22,14:30, Politics of Writing: A French History

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01.04.22,14:30, Politics of Writing: A French History

Abstract
The most aesthetic writers have found their refuge from history in the ideal of “art for art’s sake”. How can we imagine, on the other hand, “taking our pen for a sword” (Victor Hugo)? What about a politics of writing? What forms should literary commitment take? These are all very general questions, which we will ask in a synthetic way to the history of French literature.

Speaker
Boris Lyon-Caen
Sorbonne Université, Paris

Coordinator
Agnese Silvestri
Università di Salerno

Boris Lyon-Caen is researcher of French Literature at Sorbonne Université. His main fields of research are 19th century’s French literature, with a particular focus on the novel. Among his books we may remember Balzac et la comédie des signes. Essai sur une expérience de pensée (PUV, 2006); he is co-director of Balzac et la crise […]

Agnese Silvestri

Since 2014 Agnese Silvestri is a Assistant Professor at the DIPSUM (Human Studies Department). She teaches French Literature (L-lin/03) at the Foreign Languages and Literatures Course. Since 2007 she is a member of the committee for the Phd program on “Literary, linguistic and historical studies”. In august 2018, she obtained the National Scientific Habilitation for […]