Séminaire Littératures de l'imaginaire et théories de la fiction

Le séminaire Littératures de l'imaginaire et théories de la fiction reprend ses activités, avec la communication de Nathalie Saudo-Welby (Laboratoire CORPUS, UPJV) intitulée "Cases of “Strange Familiarity” in Late-Victorian Romances of Adventure"

Vous en trouverez le résumé ci-dessous, ainsi que le programme des séances de l'année.

Les séances sont également accessibles via zoom grâce au lien permanent suivant :
https://univ-artois-fr.zoom.us/j/95936252479?pwd=Ye0vLeDg1tVBMy29mRH92ECVmvLhtW.1

Charlotte Arnautou (Université d'Artois, Texte et Critique) et Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans (UPJV, CORPUS, actuellement accueillie en délégation à ECHELLES)

Nathalie Saudo-Welby (7/10/25 à 17h)
Cases of “Strange Familiarity” in Late-Victorian Romances of Adventure

Gothic encounters are generally described as moments of “hate at first sight”, generating repulsion and rejection towards what is alien. However, in several Late-Victorian male romances of adventure, the protagonists experience fleeting moments of intense aversion accompanied by a jolt of recognition, and, like us, they are left to ponder on this contradiction.

Building on cases of “strange familiarity” in novels by H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Jack London, this seminar will focus on the unease provoked by the recognition of sameness. How can familiarity, proximity and identification create more disruption than what is unprecedented and unaccountable? We can respond to the anxiety generated by what has been seen or heard before by providing satisfactory explanations which partly dispel the unease. I will make a case for interpretation, because it allows a plurality of perspectives, that include and go beyond prolepsis, atmospheric uncertainty and the history of language and ideas. This will draw on Sigmund Freud’s analysis of impressions of uncanniness as “proceeding from something familiar which has been repressed.”

• 7 octobre, 17h-18h30 (Paris Cité – Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 830) : Nathalie Saudo-Welby “Cases of  Strange Familiarity in Late-Victorian Romances of Adventure".
• 13 novembre, 17h-18h30 (Paris Cité – Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 430)  : Simon Bréan "Quels apports de l'étude de la science-fiction à la théorie de la fiction?"
• 22 janvier, 17h : Maiwenn-Iman Le Garff “Créer, revitaliser, perpétuer le monde : Ursula K. Le Guin, du mythe prélittéraire aux littératures de l’imaginaire.”
• 17 mars, 17h-18h30 (Paris Cité – Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 830): Amelha Timoner « Dispositif métaleptique et trompe-l'œil chez Jasper Fforde »