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骋颈蝉猫濒别 Sapiro: Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials and the Ethics of Writing
Date
Wed February 22nd 2012, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location
CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall
(C231), 2nd floor
(C231), 2nd floor
Speaker(s): 骋颈蝉猫濒别 Sapiro
Please by February
17th
Lunch will be provided
Lunch will be provided
What are
the limits of literary freedom? Writers' claims for
autonomy have encountered legal restrictions to their freedom of
speech. As suggested by Foucault, censorship has shaped
the very notion of authorship. This talk will confront the
diverging conceptions of the author鈥檚 responsibility in
France and the beliefs in the power of writing that underlie them
through the debates surrounding literary trials, including the
cases of B茅ranger, Courier, Flaubert, Baudelaire, the naturalists,
and the purge trials after World War II. In reaction to these
conceptions, writers developed their own code of ethics, which
contributed to the emergence of an autonomous literary field and
to the construction of the figure of the public
intellectual, embodied by Zola and by Sartre.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
骋颈蝉猫濒别 Sapiro is
research director at the CNRS (Centre de sociologie
europ茅enne-Paris), director of the Centre europ茅en de sociologie et
de science politique (Paris), and Director of Studies at the Ecole
des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales. She is the author
of La Guerre des 茅crivains,
1940-1953 (Fayard, 1999; forthcoming in English
translation with Duke University Press),La Responsabilit茅
de l鈥櫭ヽrivain. Litt茅rature, droit et morale en France
(19e-20e si猫cles) (Seuil, 2011), and of
numerous articles published in journals of sociology, history,
political science, aesthetics and literature, cultural studies and
French studies. She is also editor or co-editor
of Pour une histoire des sciences
sociales (Fayard,
2004), Pierre Bourdieu,
sociologue(Fayard, 2004), Translatio.
Le march茅 de la traduction en France 脿 l鈥檋eure de la
mondialisation (CNRS Editions,
2008), Les Contradictions de la globalisation
茅ditoriale (Nouveau Monde, 2009),
and L鈥橢space intellectuel en
Europe (La D茅couverte,
2009).