https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=341 Publications of Directeurs de la publication Anne-Laure Tissut fr 0 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1488 Even before the development of a more international awareness of literature, partly thanks to extensive translation practices, writers have been finding inspiration not only from acknowledged literary traditions, but also in individual works from the past or contemporary times. Reading—writers’ initial link with literature—offers material for writing, while fashioning writers’ conceptions of literature, as well as their vision of their own work in relation to tradition. This volume explores various forms of textual influence as manifested in the works of 20th and 21st centuries authors, to both trace continuities and assess said authors’ “singularity”, in Derek Attridge’s terms. The papers gathered in this volume analyse a large variety of forms of influence, be they visible in the chosen topics or objects, in style, manner, or language itself—turns of speech, recurring motifs, or rhythmic patterns. Quotation, unacknowledged borrowing, allusion, imitation, parody, travesty, are but a few examples of the presence—unconscious or not—of another text in a literary work. ven., 17 oct. 2025 09:45:04 +0200 lun., 20 oct. 2025 14:39:50 +0200 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1488 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=340 By bringing together two notions often deemed to be antagonistic, this project aims at exploring the intricate mesh of our relations with the world as mediatized by fiction―represented, reflected and analysed by fiction as well as questioned by it. Theoreticians, literary critics, a philosopher and an artist joined forces, not in the aim of bringing down the diversity of approaches and definitions to a consistent unity but on the contrary, to illustrate the limitless field of possibilities opened out by the conjunction of the two terms. Several main lines of analysis are addressed in this volume : the fictional treatment of historical facts, the tentative fictional renderings of the irruption of events in the daily, when the real tears up the seamless fabric of the predictable, or again the literary forms and structures meant to promote illusion and the reader’s adhering to the offered fiction by blurring―or even erasing―the traces of the presence of the creator yet at the origin of said illusion Through the investigation of the effects of fiction upon the readers’―or players’―imaginative configurations as well as upon the forms of their relations to the world, hopefully some of the specificities of the function of representation in literature and games will be brought to light. jeu., 22 févr. 2024 12:28:21 +0100 mar., 05 mars 2024 14:17:26 +0100 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=340