International audienceWhere was (literary) fiction in the early-modern passion for supernatural phenonena ? It has often been argued that the diffusion of stories and beliefs went together: blurring the line between imagination and reality, between what was read and what was seen, between the faithful account and the art of the novel, the persuasive effect of literaty tales contributed to spread beliefs in the actual existence of ghosts, witches or possessions. Yet, the contrary argument might be held by considering an incredulous brand of fiction, influenced by Lucian and Erasmus. Barclay's "Euphormio" (1605), Cervantes's "Coloquio de los perros" (1613), the "Gascon extravagant" attributed to Claireville (1637) will serve here as case exa...
International audienceThe collective work, The representation of psychic life in factual and fiction...
What kinds of relevance to wider beliefs and practices did the comic representation of magic, fairie...
This paper reflects on the secular mistreatment of fantasy genre. The inquisition this kind of liter...
International audienceIn the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensi...
folk tales to political pamphlets, linked to an investigation into the later impact of a Gothicized ...
The question of possible worlds as a way to approach fiction is crucial for the Renaissance, where f...
International audienceIs it true that "Don Quixote" mainly owes its European success in the 17th cen...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking...
The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who co...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of wh...
Title: “Onomastic Deviations and Metaliterary Consequences in the Gascon Extravagant”(Melinda A. Cro...
"Empirical Wonder" focuses on the emergence of the fantastic in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ...
International audienceThe collective work, The representation of psychic life in factual and fiction...
What kinds of relevance to wider beliefs and practices did the comic representation of magic, fairie...
This paper reflects on the secular mistreatment of fantasy genre. The inquisition this kind of liter...
International audienceIn the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensi...
folk tales to political pamphlets, linked to an investigation into the later impact of a Gothicized ...
The question of possible worlds as a way to approach fiction is crucial for the Renaissance, where f...
International audienceIs it true that "Don Quixote" mainly owes its European success in the 17th cen...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
With the rejection of Purgatory by the Reformed Church, the ghosts became a fashionable subject in d...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking...
The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who co...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the sta...
Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of wh...
Title: “Onomastic Deviations and Metaliterary Consequences in the Gascon Extravagant”(Melinda A. Cro...
"Empirical Wonder" focuses on the emergence of the fantastic in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ...
International audienceThe collective work, The representation of psychic life in factual and fiction...
What kinds of relevance to wider beliefs and practices did the comic representation of magic, fairie...
This paper reflects on the secular mistreatment of fantasy genre. The inquisition this kind of liter...