(Institut de littérature de l'UCLouvain, 2017-12-15) Pérez Fontdevila, Aina; Torras Francès, Meri
In the last few decades we have witnessed what is undoubtedly a crucial event within Literary Studies: the rebirth of the Author as a central object in theoretical debates – a return which, even if it does not necessarily restore the powers bestowed on it by its progressive sacralization and singularization in Modernity, makes it a prominent star within cultural theory today. Despite such wide interest in reviewing the genealogies, functions, modes of existence, and, ultimately, the cultural and epochal narratives that support the notion of the Author and its multiple incarnations, the “sleeping beauty of Literary Studies”, which is the iconographic representation of the writer, has awoken only in recent years (to use an expression coined by Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Pascal Durand, and Martine Lavaud that appears extremely appropriate for the present issue of Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties.)
