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Stratégies De Légitimation Et Modalités De Réception Des Littératures Francophones En Italie, Cristina Minelle, Lucie Picard Dec 2003

Stratégies De Légitimation Et Modalités De Réception Des Littératures Francophones En Italie, Cristina Minelle, Lucie Picard

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper offers an overview of a broad research project concerned with the current diffusion of Francophone Literatures in Italy. The study comprises several components: a review of the academic literature; a survey of relevant websites; the analysis of publisher’s catalogues; archival analysis and face-to-face research at Universities and other Francophone cultural centres. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the study offers an articulate though lively account of the state of Francophone Literatures in Italy.


Discours Préfaciels Et Réception En Littérature Africaine De Langue Française, Sélom Komlan Gbanou Dec 2003

Discours Préfaciels Et Réception En Littérature Africaine De Langue Française, Sélom Komlan Gbanou

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Decisive instance between the text and its reader, the preface plays an important role in the reception of the literary work, as Gerard Genette emphasizes in his essay Seuils (1987). The present analysis proposes a reading of the stategies used in the prefaces of francophone African Literature from colonial times to the present. Who introduces whom? Why and how? These are a few of the questions this article deals with.