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Abstract Daniel Heller-Roazen, professor at Princeton University, has shown that metrics, which is a matter of music and numerical relationships, endures when languages collapse and survives their obsolescence and oblivion. In other words, the arts of the …

Abstract Giovanna Angeli, professor at the University of Florence, has not only followed the literary fortunes of the chatelaine de Vergy, from the 13th-century French nouvelle to the Italian cantare , Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Bandello and …

Abstract Antoine Compagnon, Professor at the Collège de France, has analyzed the significance for our relationship with ancient texts of the choice made by the most recent editors of Montaigne to no longer follow the Bordeaux edition, but to return, as …

Abstract Elena Mochonkina, lecturer at Astrakhan University, has examined Russian translations of the Divine Comedy in the 19th century , comparing them with the French translations through which they sometimes pass. She has shown the considerable weight …

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Abstract Jean-Charles Vegliante, professor at the University of Paris III, has drawn on his experience as a translator of Dante to highlight the choices involved in editing and translating the Vita nova , which is itself rooted in the literary past (the …

Abstract Hélène Tétrel, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brest, ("Speaking, preserving and passing on old texts: Icelanders and their Middle Ages") has shed light on the stakes involved in preserving an ancient state of the language in the claim to …

Abstract Harald Weinrich, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, borrowed the term hodology from Kurt Lewin , later taken up by Sartre, and compared retrochronology and rectochronology in a theoretical and practical clarification that had a strong …

Abstract Claudio Galderisi, professor at the University of Poitiers, has finely analyzed the reuse of ancient texts, the interplay between time and the momentum of discourse versus the aesthetics of gloss, in Stendhal's Italian Chronicles ("Stendhal et …

Abstract Patricia Oster-Stierle, professor at the University of Saarbrücken, under the title "The Five Awakenings of Sleeping Beauty", has not only penetratingly compared Perrault 's Sleeping Beauty to the Grimm brothers' Dornröschen , but has also …

Abstract Patrick Labarthe, professor at the University of Zurich, has admirably identified Sainte-Beuve's critical method, a conversation with the dead, without systemic spirit or emphasis (nor the derision of Lucien' s Dialogue des morts ), driven by the …

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Abstract Karlheinz Stierle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Konstanz and member of the COSS of the Collège de France, began his talk entitled "Valse mélancolique : Charles d'Orléans qui revient" that knowing how to read an aged text is an …

Abstract Anna Maria Babbi, professor at the University of Verona, has analyzed and interpreted Carlo Goldoni's 1758 play inspired by the romantic chanson de geste of Bueve de Hantone ("The long road of Bueve de Hantone : Carlo Goldoni's ' dramma giocoso …

Abstract Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, professor at the University of Paris IV, dealing with "Alceste's Syndrome: François Villon et le vieux style entre nostalgie et polémique", subtly contrasted an old text with an old text, comparing Pierre Sala …

Abstract Yves Bonnefoy, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, has taken a more optimistic stance, at least on the surface ("Why don't some books age?"). For him, as we know, poetry, which goes directly from words to experience, is an antidote to …

Abstract Mario Mancini, professor at the University of Bologna, under the title "Moëlleuses sentences: lire le Roman de la Rose " has brilliantly shown how Étienne Pasquier read and interpreted the Roman de la Rose on the horizon of the authors closer to …

Abstract Reading an aged text: that's what every reader does, as soon as he or she reads something other than the newspaper of the day or a novel of the year. The distance created by the ageing of a text is the primary reason why literature is an …