Les Heritages litteraires dans la litterature francaise (XVIe-XXe siecle)

edited by Franziska Meier, Brigitte Diaz and Francine Wild

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Extent: 317 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 83

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2014)

ISBN: 9782812429248

Price: $46.00

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Literature is a witness to processes of inheritance, and is itself an inheritor of concepts and models. Following the traumatising, but liberating, rupture of the Revolution, writers and poets found themselves with several heritages which they could choose from in a gesture of creativity and freedom.


Literature is a witness to processes of inheritance, and is itself an inheritor of concepts and models. Following the traumatising, but liberating, rupture of the Revolution, writers and poets found themselves with several heritages which they could choose from in a gesture of creativity and freedom.

  • Edited by Brigitte Diaz
  • Edited by Franziska Meier
  • Edited by Francine Wild

Review - French Depuis l'aube de la civilisation il y a des heritiers. Nous sommes petris de ce qui nous a ete transmis : des biens, des valeurs, des savoirs. Les articles ici reunis s'interessent au point de vue de l'heritier, amene a trier et a evaluer ce qu'il recoit. La Revolution francaise apparait comme le moment cle ou la rupture est proclamee, tandis que les destructions memes suscitent un interet nouveau pour le patrimoine culturel. Dans les generations qui suivent, certains ecrivains cultivent la nostalgie et le desarroi, d'autres puisent dans les formes heritees pour inventer du neuf. Au XXsiecle, l'eventail des attitudes s'elargit encore, tandis que certains ont a gerer les traumatismes violents de l'histoire.
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