L’ironie dans la fiction documentaire : un renouvellement de l’engagement littéraire ?
Faced with the ecological emergency, certain contemporary French fictions (including Emmanuelle Pireyre's Féerie générale), to which my own practice-based research and creative writing relate, combine documentary investigation and irony to draw attention to environmental problems. Well aware th...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Carnets |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/13565 |
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| Summary: | Faced with the ecological emergency, certain contemporary French fictions (including Emmanuelle Pireyre's Féerie générale), to which my own practice-based research and creative writing relate, combine documentary investigation and irony to draw attention to environmental problems. Well aware that facts are never raw but always constructed, these narratives take a critical approach to reality and discourse, making irony a tool of soft power. They take advantage of its axiological dimension to provoke reflection and even action in readers, reversing the idea that irony is a purely formal game, or that it distances literature from ethical or political questions. In doing so, they renew the notion of literary engagement, constituting what I propose to call a form of engagement “dégagé” (disengaged engagement or casual commitment). |
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| ISSN: | 1646-7698 |