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³Ò¾±²õè±ô±ð 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

Speaker(s): ³Ò¾±²õè±ô±ð Sapiro

 

Please  by February 17th
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’s responsibility in France and the beliefs in the power of writing that underlie them through the debates surrounding literary trials, including the cases of Béranger, 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:
³Ò¾±²õè±ô±ð Sapiro is research director at the CNRS (Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris), director of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (Paris), and Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.  She is the author of La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (Fayard, 1999; forthcoming in English translation with Duke University Press),La Responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France (19e-20e siècles) (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 marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation (CNRS Editions, 2008), Les Contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale (Nouveau Monde, 2009), and L’Espace intellectuel en Europe (La Découverte, 2009).