| ISBN13: | 9781835536797 |
| ISBN10: | 1835536794 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 144 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 666 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 9 |
| 700 |
History and the literary 2025
GBP 75.00
In critical conversation with J. L. Austin, Foucault, de Certeau, and others, and with disciplines such as the history of the book and cultural studies, History and the Literary: A Method of Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Seventeenth- to Twentieth-Century France brings into view the many acts of writing that created, sustain ? and block ? our knowledge of the past.
This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur l?Histoire du Littéraire, better known as the GRIHL. Founded in 1997 by the historian, Christian Jouhaud, and the sociologist of literature, Alain Viala, the GRIHL?s weekly seminar has been the crucible for the careers of a whole generation of scholars, working on social and political phenomenon of what it terms ?the literary? from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, primarily but not exclusively in France, and pioneering an interdisciplinary perspective.
The brainchild of Alain Viala, who died in 2021 and to whom it pays tribute, the book combines methodological position pieces and case studies, work done both individually and collectively as a seminar. The Introduction (Kate Tunstall and Christian Jouhaud) situates the GRIHL in the intellectual and institutional landscape and explains what is meant by ?the literary? (as distinct from ?literature?). Three powerful pieces on method ? ?Opening Moves? ? set out why the GRIHL approaches ?writings? rather than ?texts? and what happens when writing is viewed, as it is by the GRIHL, as a social act (Alain Cantillon, Laurence Giavarini, Dinah Ribard, Nicolas Schapira); what happens when place is viewed not as site but as situation (Mathilde Bombart and Alain Cantillon), and a publication not as an object but as an action (Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala). The GRIHL?s deep interdisciplinarity is evident in the two sets of case studies ? ?Three Things to Think With?, which includes urban riots (Nicolas Schapira), the literary canon (Laurence Gavarini), libertines and heretics (Sophie Houdard and Jean-Pierre Cavaillé) ? and ?Seeing the Past?, which deals with Romantic ruins (Judith Lyon-Caen), historical amnesia in Simenon (Christian Jouhaud), and the many figures of Watteau (Alain Viala). Together, these essays make clear what is truly distinctive about the GRIHL?s approach. In critical conversation with J. L. Austin, Foucault, de Certeau, and others, including themselves, and with disciplines such as the history of the book and cultural studies, the GRIHL brings into view the many acts of writing that created, sustain ? and block ? our knowledge of the past.
General Introduction
Christian Jouhaud and Kate Tunstall
?Racine, literary strategy and interest?
Alain Viala
Translated and adapted from Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira (dir.), On ne peut pas tout réduire ? des stratégies. Pratiques d'écriture et trajectoires sociales, Paris, PUF, 2013, p.183-199.
Part 1: Opening Moves
?Writing (and) Action: An Introduction?
Alain Cantillon, Laurence Giavarini, Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira
Translation and adaptation of ?Ecriture et action : une introduction?, in Grihl, Ecriture et Action, XVIIe-XIXe si?cle, une enqu?te collective, Paris, Editions EHESS, collection ?En temps & lieux?, 2016, p.9-23
?Places: Locating Writings and Writing Actions - Introduction?
Mathilde Bombart and Alain Cantillon
Translation and adaptation of ?Localisation des écrits et production locale d?actions?, Les Dossiers du Grihl, 2008, 2-1, doi: 10.4000/dossiersgrihl.2153
?History of the book, history through the book, history of literature?
Dinah Ribard and Nicolas Schapira
Translation of a new version of ?Histoire du livre et histoire par le livre?, XVIe-XXe si?cle?, Revue de synth?se, 2007/1-2, Springer-Verlag, p.19-25.
?Towards a History of Publication?
Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala
Translation of ?Vers une histoire de la publication?, De la publication. Entre Renaissance et Lumi?res, Paris, Fayard, 2002.
Part 2: Three Things to Think with
?Les Caract?res: The Knowledge of Literature??
Laurence Giavarini
Translation of ?Les Caract?res, le savoir de la littérature ?, in Françoise Poulet, Myriam Tsimbidy, Arnaud Welfringer (dir.), Autres regards sur Les Caract?res (de La Bruy?re), éd. Atlande, Clefs Concours-Lettres XVIIe si?cle, 2020, p.105-120.?
?Lanturlu: Writings of a Revolt in Ancien Régime France?
Nicolas Schapira
Translation of ?Lanturlus, les écritures d?une révolte?, Annales de Bourgogne, t.91, 3-4, 2019, p.49-70.
?Irreligion and Gender Relations in the Early Modern Era: Case Studies?
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé and Sophie Houdard
Translation and adaption of Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sophie Houdard and Cécile Soudan (eds), ?Masculinité et ?esprit fort? au début de l?époque moderne?, Les Dossiers du Grihl, 2010, 4, doi: 10.4000/dossiersgrihl.3911 and Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sophie Houdard and Xenia Von Tippelskirch (eds), ?Femmes, irréligion et dissidences religieuses (XIVe-XVIIIe si?cles)?, L?Atelier du Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, 2009-04, doi: 10.4000/acrh.1204.
Part 3: Seeing the Past
?Seeing the past in Romantic ruins: a political and literary history?
Judith Lyon-Caen
Translation of ?Voir le passé dans les ruines romantiques : une histoire politique et littéraire?, Sociétés & Représentations, 2018/1, 45, p.233-260.
?Seeing and not seeing with Commissaire Maigret?
Christian Jouhaud
Translation of ?Voir et ne pas voir le passé. Maigret et Les témoins récalcitrants?, Vingti?me Si?cle. Revue d'histoire, 2011/4, 112, p.83-97.
?Who?s there: seeing Watteau with Pierre Michon?
Alain Viala
Translation of ?D'un Pierrot l'autre, Watteau, Verlaine, Michon?, a paper delivered at the université of Fribourg, in March 2013 at the Conférence on ?Le temps des querelles?.
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