The theory and decline of literature. Another French perspective
In his last book, Vincent Kaufmann tries to approach literary theory from a less „French” point a view. He emphasizes the role of French literary theory in recent French culture, and puts literature in a wider cultural perspective. However, he does not pay enough attention to the avatars of theory in more recent humanistic researches – philosophy, ethics or history of ideas – in which theory seems to syrvice and to give new fruits, even if it is not any more to consider part of literary studies. Kaufmann’s coined concept – mouvance théorique – inscribes theory in a new epistemic and historical discourse in French culture and contributes to a better cultural exchange between American and French cultural discourses.
Keywords: literary theory, Vincent Kaufmann, French theory, cultural studies
1.[1] Vezi aici recenta istorie a literaturii franceze de la Columbia Universtiy Press, Christie McDonald, Susan Rubin Suleiman (ed.), French Global. A New Approach to Literary History (2010), care pune literatura franceză în perspectiva Wolrd Literature.
2.[1] Primul text inserat în culegerea L’Ecriture et l’expérience des limites, Seuil, 1968, p.5-7.
3.[1] Kristin Ross, Laver plus blanc, rouler plus vite. Modernisation de la France et décolonnisation au tournant des années 60, Flammarion, 2006.
4.[1] J.-Y. Tadié (dir.), La Littérature française: dynamique et histoire, II, Gallimard, 2007.
5.[1] Filosof al discursului ca „producţie”
6.[1] Disident al Tel Quel după 1968.
