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- I teach literature and communication in the French Department at the Collège de Maisonneuve (Montreal). I am interest... moreI teach literature and communication in the French Department at the Collège de Maisonneuve (Montreal). I am interested in issues relating to Renaissance literature (the dialogue genre, utopia, satire...), the history of communications, book history, media ecology and the fate of reading and writing in digital environments. I have co-edited a collection of essays on Renaissance dialogue (PRINTED VOICES: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue, University of Toronto Press, 2004) and another on comparative literature (TRANSMÉDIATIONS, Presses de l’université de Montréal, 2012). I have also published book chapters and articles in scholarly journals on writers of the Renaissance and the 17th century (Thomas More, Rabelais, Erasmus, Étienne Dolet, Bonaventure Des Périers, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac...), as well as on print culture and communication theory (on Marshall McLuhan especially). I am currently preparing a digital edition of a Renaissance dialogue, the CYMBALUM MUNDI (Paris, 1537).
J'enseigne la littérature et les communications au Département de lettres du Collège de Maisonneuve. Je m’intéresse notamment à la littérature de la Renaissance (dialogue, utopie, satire...), à l’histoire des communications, à l'intermédialité et à certains enjeux de la culture de l’imprimé en relation avec l’émergence des nouveaux médias et des humanités numériques. Je travaille en ce moment à une édition électronique du CYMBALUM MUNDI, (Paris, 1537) avec le soutien du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. J'ai coédité un ouvrage collectif de littérature comparée (TRANSMÉDIATIONS. Traversées culturelles de la modernité tardive, Presses de l’université de Montréal), ainsi qu’un volume sur le dialogue à la Renaissance (PRINTED VOICES. The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue_, University of Toronto Press). J'ai rédigé plusieurs articles et comptes rendus dans diverses revues savantes au sujet d’écrivains, d’éditeurs et d’imprimeurs de la Renaissance (Thomas More, Rabelais, Érasme, Étienne Dolet, Bonaventure Des Périers...), ainsi que des auteurs des 17e (Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac) et 20e siècles (Robert Musil).edit
Cet article se propose de comparer ces deux moments forts de la simulation écrite de l'échange oral en France que sont le milieu du XVI e siècle pour le genre du « dialogue » (ou du « colloque ») et la deuxième moitié du XVII e pour celui... more
Cet article se propose de comparer ces deux moments forts de la simulation écrite de l'échange oral en France que sont le milieu du XVI e siècle pour le genre du « dialogue » (ou du « colloque ») et la deuxième moitié du XVII e pour celui de la « conversation » (ou de l'« entretien »), et ce, afin de montrer que la relation de continuité postulée par Marc Fumaroli entre le « dialogue humaniste » et la « conversation classique » pose problème à plus d'un titre. Nous verrons qu'il serait même préférable d'envisager cette relation sur le mode de la discontinuité, voire de l'opposition. En conclusion, nous nous intéresserons brièvement à un « passeur », Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, ayant joué un rôle majeur dans ce renversement, dont les fondements éthiques et politiques paraissent discutables.
This article sets out to compare two high points in the written simulation of oral exchange in France: the mid-sixteenth century for the genre of " dialogue " (or " colloque ") and the second half of the seventeenth for that of the " conversation " (or " entretien "). The article demonstrates that the relation of continuity postulated by Marc Fumaroli between " humanist dialogue " and " classical conversation " is problematic for more than one reason. We will see that it might be preferable to consider this relation in terms of discontinuity, or perhaps even opposition. In conclusion, we deal briefly with a " middleman " who played a major role in this reversal, and whose ethical motivations and politics seem questionable: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.
Cet article est dédié à la pionnière des études sur le dialogue à la Renaissance, Eva Kushner.
This article is dedicated to Eva Kushner who pioneered the study of Renaissance dialogue.)
This article sets out to compare two high points in the written simulation of oral exchange in France: the mid-sixteenth century for the genre of " dialogue " (or " colloque ") and the second half of the seventeenth for that of the " conversation " (or " entretien "). The article demonstrates that the relation of continuity postulated by Marc Fumaroli between " humanist dialogue " and " classical conversation " is problematic for more than one reason. We will see that it might be preferable to consider this relation in terms of discontinuity, or perhaps even opposition. In conclusion, we deal briefly with a " middleman " who played a major role in this reversal, and whose ethical motivations and politics seem questionable: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.
Cet article est dédié à la pionnière des études sur le dialogue à la Renaissance, Eva Kushner.
This article is dedicated to Eva Kushner who pioneered the study of Renaissance dialogue.)
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Dialogue and dialogism offer one of the most promising paths to interality in the West. Concentrating on the Renaissance tradition of the Humanist dialogue and more recent philosophical practices and theories of dialogue in the 20th... more
Dialogue and dialogism offer one of the most promising paths to interality in the West. Concentrating on the Renaissance tradition of the Humanist dialogue and more recent philosophical practices and theories of dialogue in the 20th century, we will see--most notably through a close examination of two major literary and philosophical works: Thomas More’s <i>Utopia</i> and Robert Musil’s <i>The Man without Qualities</i>--that one can trace an (interrupted) line between these two transitional historical periods, set at both ends of the “Gutenberg parenthesis”, when relational, dialogic and thus potentially “interalogical” modes of writing, thinking and being came to the forefront.
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Was Marshall McLuhan the first truly "electric" intellectual? (Article in French)
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This paper examines the complex orality-literacy issues related to the immense popularity of the written dialogue during the European Renaissance. Three hypotheses purport to explain the attractiveness of this form in the wake of Humanism... more
This paper examines the complex orality-literacy issues related to the immense popularity of the written dialogue during the European Renaissance. Three hypotheses purport to explain the attractiveness of this form in the wake of Humanism and the rise of print culture: (1) dialogues could point to a form of “residual orality” left over from the medieval oral-aural era; (2) the genre could be a transitional form facilitating the historical shift from an aural to a visual culture; (3) dialogue’s popularity could be seen as a rhetorical-oral reaction to the abstract logic of earlier scholasticism. However, the incompleteness of these hypotheses warrants the proposal of a fourth—more encompassing and “media ecological”— hypothesis based on what I propose to call the “dialogocentric” perspective of humanist writing.
