La perte de l’origine comme fondement des poétiques modernes de la mémoire

• Authors: Marot Patrick

Title variants

EN

THE LOSS OF ORIGIN AS THE BASIS OF MODERN POETICS OF MEMORY

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The ancient and classical tradition assume the memoria, which reproduces a stable and hierarchical order, able to base the exemplary and topical value of stories. This “onto-theological” model (Kant) is radically overthrown by the one that prevails in modernity — since the end of the eighteenth century: forgetting the metaphysical foundation is becoming a paradoxical matrix of memory. Discontinuity becomes the condition of our relation to the past, which can no longer be sustained on an identifiable origin, but must be invented. Modern literature becomes a question of ignorance, and is condemned to construct optimistic (Novalis, Michon, Perec) or pessimistic (Senancour, Tieck, Conrad) answers to this question.

Keywords

FR

mémoire; oubli de l’origine; autobiographie; modernité; romantisme; identité; opacité

EN

memory; oblivion of origin; autobiography; Modernity; Romanticism; identity; opacity

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: XXX
• Issue: Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature
• Pages: 61-79

Contributors

author

Marot Patrick

• Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2020.3.5