Amphis Pour Tous - Can literature be political?

May 20, 2025 6:00 PM - may 2025 19:30

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The conference "Can literature be political? "presented by Sylvain SANTI, research professor at the Laboratoire Langages, Littératures, Sociétés Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI)UFR Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines (LLSH) will take place on mardi 20 May 2025 at 6pm atuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc, 27 rue Marcoz73000 Chambéry.

It will also be held :

  • Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in Thonon-Les-Bains
  • Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in Annecy
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in Albertville

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

In view of the long and rich history that unites these two terms, this question is obviously rhetorical. rhetorical. Its merit, however, is to draw attention to the meaning of an association that has become commonplace. association: what does the term "political" mean when used as an epithet to describe the literary? More to the point, what do we mean when we say that a literary text is political? literary text? To answer these questions, we need to examine contemporary literary works. literary works: in order to identify the meanings that can be attributed to this term, and to pinpoint what it says about our times and the place that literature occupies or hopes to occupy in them.

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