Erudition et fiction

Troisieme rencontre internationale Paul-Zumthor, Montreal, 13-15 octobre 2011

assisted by Francis Gingras, Elisabeth Nardout-Lafarge and Marie-Louise Ollier

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Extent: 327 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Fonds Paul-Zumthor

Series volume number: 1

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9782812417955

Price: $50.00

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Erudition, with its concern for sources, and fiction, which relies on invention, seem opposed to each other. However, such a radical separation is questionable. This volume examines their crossovers and oppositions in literature from the Middle Ages to today.

  • Assisted by Francis Gingras
  • Assisted by Elisabeth Nardout-Lafarge
  • Assisted by Marie-Louise Ollier

Review - French Erudition et fiction semblent s'opposer l'une a l'autre. L'etablissement objectif des multiples faits du passe, grace a un soin meticuleux, semble etranger a la vivacite de l'imagination et au deploiement d'une invention parlant du passe en fonction de recreations subjectives. Pourtant, on peut douter d'une separation aussi radicale. Chercheurs et ecrivains discutent, dans cet ouvrage, des recoupements et oppositions de ces deux notions dans la litterature du Moyen Age a nos jours.
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