Abstract

SAPIRO, Gisèle. From the Figure of Author to Textual Mobility. Roger Chartier’s Contribution to Sociology and to the History of Literature. Prismas [online]. 2022, vol.26, n.2, pp.232-244.  Epub Nov 05, 2022. ISSN 1852-0499.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48160/18520499prismas26.1313.

Based on two aspects that run through almost all of Roger Chartier’s work, the article explores the interdisciplinary perspective he has practiced from an epistemological, theoretical and methodological point of view, in particular with cultural sociology and the history of literature. First of all, it analyzes the notion of “author” that Chartier explicitly recovers from Michel Foucault and that he installs in the field of history at a time when this problematic still had little presence in France, despite the fact that works on authorship were already booming in an English-speaking world. After a reference to the new conception of the “reader” forged by Chartier, which was a strong challenge to the theories of reception, the instability of meaning produced by the mobility of texts is addressed in order to reinforce their intrinsic historicity and to avoid any possible epistemological relativism.

Keywords : Roger Chartier; Textual Mobility; Authorship; Interdisciplinarity; Cultural Sociology.

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