Literary geographies (^16th-18th centuries)

This year's lecture focused on the relationship between texts and spaces, both those of the circulation of works and those of fiction itself, or, as Franco Moretti puts it: " literature in space " and " space in literature ". The perspective adopted remained faithful to the principles that have guided previous years' lectures: on the one hand, not to separate texts as aesthetic productions from the books and materialities that have ensured their dissemination and reception; on the other, to focus attention on the historicity of categories unduly held to be universal - starting with that of "literature", always placed in quotation marks as Paul Zumthor intended, to mark the historical conditions that made its "invention" possible.