Study of the Crisis of Representation
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Overview
Created in 1991, the team brings together language, French and Francophone literature and comparative literature specialists. The research professors study the crises of representation that have occurred from the late 19th century to the present day: crises of parliamentary democracy, the slow demise of the rhetorical model, the weakening of the very notion of “literature” with the emergence of mass media and the counter-structuring of the literary field, as well as the adoption of new media, the questioning of the “grand narratives” of the Western world—a linguistic awareness of a fault line separating language and the world. This is reflected in the overhauling of the categories of prose and literary language, and in poetic revolutions, which may go so far as the radical rejection of the common language. Our contemporary period must be examined from the perspective of these crises.
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