Études littéraires
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description: Revue du Département de littérature, théâtre et cinéma de l’Université Laval, Études littéraires est à l’avant-scène de la recherche universitaire nationale et internationale depuis sa fondation en 1968. La revue, qui se distingue par sa vocation généraliste et multidisciplinaire, publie des dossiers thématiques, des articles libres et des débats. Elle peut compter sur la contribution de chercheurs de grande renommée et valorise pleinement la publication d’articles d’étudiants aux cycles supérieurs. Publiée trois fois l'an, elle rejoint un imposant lectorat et bénéficie d’une grande visibilité. Études littéraires est indexée dans les banques de données bibliographiques de renommée mondiale, en plus d’être largement diffusée par la Société de développement des périodiques culturels québécois (SODEP), par le réseau des SUP (Sorbonne Université Presses) et par la plateforme Érudit où 98% de ses numéros sont en libre accès.
publisher: Département de littérature, théâtre et cinéma de l’Université Laval
language: en
publication name: Études littéraires
issn: 1708-9069
items: (avant-propos) Mutants, mondes possibles et promesses de l’aube posthumaniste
items: Mutations furtives : esthétique biopunk et polytique du vivant dans Les Furtifs d’Alain Damasio
items: Du modèle postmoderne vers une narration posthumaniste : l’utopie d’un collectif queer dans Westworld (Joy, Nolan, 2016-2022, quatre saisons)
items: Introduction. Silences of Gender, Truths of Sex in the Nineteenth Century
items: The Translations of Newton’s Works in Eighteenth-Century France
items: The Promises of Finitude: Iron Man's Transhumanism Versus the embodied Worry by Thanos
items: Devenir-(post)humain : sublimations corporelles et identitaires dans la production littéraire de Karoline Georges
items: Saltations 1999. Greg Bear, Greg Egan, David Cronenberg et le mutant « évolutif »
items: Entretien avec Carlos Tello
items: Entretien avec Ariel Kyrou
items: Mutants, cyborgs, chimeras or post-animals. Characteristics of a new literary genre
items: Morphology of posthuman literature in the contemporary extreme French-speaking world
items: Going Green in a Post-Gender World
items: Entretien avec Norbert Merjagnan (dossier "Nouveaux mutants", partie "Débats")
items: Le misérable mutant : « The Golden Man » de P. K. Dick, de l’intertextualité à la métafiction
items: Mutant Languages: Linguistic Hybridity and Posthuman Identities in Popular Culture
items: Entretien avec Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (dossier "Nouveaux mutants", partie "Débats")
items: Ways of being mutant: metamorphosis and hybridization as empowerment of the 'weak' in Game of Thrones
items: Entretien avec Marc Atallah (dossier "Mutants", coordinatrice : Nathalie Dufayet)
items: Entretien avec Eric Fourneret (dossier "Mutants", coordinatrice : Nathalie DUFAYET)
items: Entretien avec Alexandre Moatti (Nathalie Dufayet, coordinatrice dossier "Mutants")
items: From the Already Said to the Unspoken: Repetitions and Inversions in Les Demi-sexes by Jane de la Vaudère (1897)
items: Poetics of Suggestion and Sexual Subtexts of Gendered Violence in Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde (1884) and Bruges-la-Morte by Rodenbach (1892)
items: Failures of the Sexual Order : “Male Brutality” and Female Dissatisfaction in Selected Sandian Texts from 1832
items: This Unnameable Desire: Incest as Apocalypse in the Decadent Novel (1884–1897)
items: Metamorphosis of Genres : Misgendering the Reading in Novembre (1842) and Madame Bovary (1857)
items: Seeing Male Homosexuality Differently: L’Autre vue by Georges Eekhoud (1904)
items: When the “White Flight of Lesbians” Passes By: Writing Without Saying, or the Suggestion of Lesbianism in La Curée (1871)
items: Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse’s “La chasse aux papillons”, or the Ambiguities of the Unspoken in the Female Erotic Novel (1807–1809)
items: “So, You Are Never Ailing ?” : The Silences Surrounding Oophorectomy in Les Demi-sexes by Jane de la Vaudère (1897) and Les Florifères by Camille Pert (1898)

(avant-propos) Mutants, mondes possibles et promesses de l’aube posthumaniste
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description: Ce texte est l'avant-propos du double numéro que j'ai piloté (n°54.2-3), intitulé "Les Nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire (XXe-XXIe siècles) : sémiologie du désastre et (contre)utopie posthumaniste".
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: posthumanisme, cinéma, apocalypse, mutant, IA
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subject: littérature
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creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 7
ending page: 29

Mutations furtives : esthétique biopunk et polytique du vivant dans Les Furtifs d’Alain Damasio
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description: In Les Furtifs (2019), Alain Damasio reimagines the figure of the mutant - not through technological enhancement or spectacular rupture, but through a diffuse transformation, attentive to the living and porous to its environments. The furtive mutant does not impose itself: it eludes, circulates, evolves. Through a biopunk poetics shaped by listening, narrative variation, and resistance to capture, the novel sketches out alternative ways of inhabiting the world. This article explores the political and aesthetic stakes of this poetics of flight, tracing its lines of force and points of inflection.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: Alain Damasio
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subject: biopunk
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subject: mutation
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subject: poetics of flight
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subject: politics of living
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subject: science fiction
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creator: Julien Tribotte
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 175
ending page: 195

Du modèle postmoderne vers une narration posthumaniste : l’utopie d’un collectif queer dans Westworld (Joy, Nolan, 2016-2022, quatre saisons)
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description: Cet article explore comment la narration fragmentée et l’hybridité dialogique de Westworld (HBO, 2016-2022) déconstruisent les catégories identitaires fixes en inscrivant ses figures posthumaines dans une dynamique queer et collective. À travers l’entrelacement des récits et la multiplicité des points de vue, la série met en scène des identités fluides et mutantes, transcendant le genre et l’individualité. Cette analyse interroge si Westworld témoigne d’une sémiologie du désastre, où toute subjectivité stable devient impossible face aux transformations technologiques et culturelles du XXIe siècle, ou si elle propose finalement une utopie posthumaniste où l’identité devient interconnectée. This article examines how the fragmented narration and dialogic hybridity of Westworld (HBO, 2016-2022) deconstructs fixed identity categories by situating its posthuman figures within a queer, collective dynamic. Through its interwoven storylines and multiplicity of perspectives, the series portrays fluid and mutable identities that transcend both gender and individuality. The analysis investigates whether Westworld articulates a semiology of disaster – in which stable subjectivity becomes impossible in the face of 21st century technological and cultural transformations – or whether it ultimately gestures toward a posthumanist utopia grounded in interconnected identity.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: Narratologie
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subject: Postmodernisme
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subject: posthumanisme, transhumanisme, science, mutant
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subject: collectivité
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subject: Hybridité
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subject: trangression et subversion du genre
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subject: queer
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creator: Léon Bodier
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 145
ending page: 160

Introduction. Silences of Gender, Truths of Sex in the Nineteenth Century
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description: Aucun
subject: Présentation
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subject: 19th century
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subject: gender
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subject: silences
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subject: novel
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subject: sociocriticism
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subject: poetics
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creator: Nicolas Duriau
creator: Lucie Nizard
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 7
ending page: 27

The Translations of Newton’s Works in Eighteenth-Century France
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description: All eighteenth-century scholars fell under Newton’s spell. While Madame du Châtelet is best remembered as the translator of the Principia into French, Diderot also inserted into his Mémoires a Latin text by Newton – preceded by his own French translation – together with footnotes. This article first examines the cultural and scientific context in which these revolutionary discoveries were received in France, before turning to the selected translations and their accompanying paratexts. Although not exhaustive, this investigation reveals the permeability between disciplines and points to further possible connections for future research.
subject: Analyses
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subject: scientific translation
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subject: paratexts
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subject: Newton
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subject: Enlightenment
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subject: Diderot
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creator: Nataša Raschi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 251
ending page: 271

The Promises of Finitude: Iron Man's Transhumanism Versus the embodied Worry by Thanos
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description: This article examines the importance of the subject's relationship to his own finitude, in a connection to the world (Lebenswelt) that can be extended in and through transhumanism in order to respond to the threat of an adversary embodying in his will the limiting conditions of consciousness. Thus we draw on the recurring encounter between the character of Iron Man and his antagonist, Thanos in the MCU over eleven years of production (2008-2019) and fifteen years of narrative framework. The cinematographic medium therefore allows us to examine how humanism is at the center of the polarization of what it means to exist, between finitude and the temptation of infinity.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: finiteness
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subject: Heidegger
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subject: Blumenberg
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subject: Kant
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subject: Cassirer
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subject: Infini
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subject: Infinity
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subject: Humanism
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subject: the future
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subject: Entelechy
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subject: Heroism
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subject: Transhumanism
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subject: Marvel
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subject: Iron-Man
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subject: Barbaras
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subject: Lebenswelt
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subject: Fear
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subject: Myth
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creator: Pierre-Adrien Marciset
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 77
ending page: 93

Devenir-(post)humain : sublimations corporelles et identitaires dans la production littéraire de Karoline Georges
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description: This article examines the transformations of body and identity in Karoline Georges’ novels. Through her characters, Georges explores the pursuit of transcendence beyond societal constraints, particularly those tied to femininity and aesthetic standards. Using technology, such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, she offers a vision of transhumanism and posthumanism that goes beyond physical enhancement to include the reshaping of consciousness and identity. These bodily transformations, often driven by trauma and hardship, serve as ways for the characters to reinvent themselves and break free from societal constraints. The article demonstrates how these changes open new possibilities for the fusion of mind and matter, while questioning the boundaries between the human, the non-human, and the more-than-human.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: Karoline Georges
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subject: sublimation
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subject: Transcendence
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subject: Body
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subject: science fiction
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subject: mutation
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creator: Laura Lafrance
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 211
ending page: 224

Saltations 1999. Greg Bear, Greg Egan, David Cronenberg et le mutant « évolutif »
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description: L’année 1999 marque le retour en grâce du mutant dans la science-fiction « sérieuse ». Avec les romans Darwin’s Radio de Greg Bear et Teranesia de Greg Egan, ce sont deux maîtres de la hard science fiction qui revisitent coup sur coup le thème de l’épidémie mutagène à l’aune des transformations récentes de la biologie et notamment de la théorie de l’évolution. Pour Gérard Klein, ces deux écrivains auraient acté la mise en cause du « gradualisme » darwinien, et le retour du mutant de SF accompagnerait logiquement celui des hypothèses « saltationnistes ». Or une comparaison s’impose avec le film Crimes of the Future (2022) de David Cronenberg, une histoire d’« évolution accélérée » dont l’écriture remonte précisément à la toute fin des années 1990. Il y a bien eu une discussion entre science-fiction et darwinisme au tournant du millénaire, mais elle a dépassé les limites et les limitations du biotech thriller. The year 1999 marked the return of mutants to “serious” science fiction. With Darwin’s Radio, by Greg Bear, and Teranesia, by Greg Egan, two masters of hard science fiction revisited the theme of mutagenic epidemics in light of recent changes in biology, and in particular, in the theory of evolution. In Gérard Klein’s view, these novelists acknowledged the questioning of Darwinian “gradualism”, and the return of the sci-fi mutant followed logically on from that of “saltationist” assumptions. One could draw parallels with David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future (2022), a story of “accelerated evolution” and which was written at the very end of the 1990s. There was a discussion between science fiction and Darwinism at the turn of the millennium, but it exceeded the limits and limitations of the biotech thriller genre.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: Greg Bear
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subject: Greg Egan
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subject: David Cronenberg
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subject: néodarwinisme
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subject: science-fiction, transhumanisme, mutant
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subject: Stephen Jay Gould
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subject: paléontologie
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subject: Nietzsche, surhomme
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subject: génétique
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creator: Adrien Malcor
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 51
ending page: 76

Entretien avec Carlos Tello
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description: Dernier entretien à intégrer dans la partie "Débats" du volume que je coordonne sur "les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire". Carlos Tello y parle de cinéma post- et antihumaniste.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: posthumanisme, cinéma, apocalypse, mutant, IA
  topic: keywords
creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 303
ending page: 313

Entretien avec Ariel Kyrou
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description: Cet entretien avec Ariel Kyrou a été réalisé en janvier dernier pour la partie "Débats" du dossier que je coordonne sur les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: science-fiction, transhumanisme, posthumanisme, mutant, apocalypse
  topic: keywords
creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 227
ending page: 242

Mutants, cyborgs, chimeras or post-animals. Characteristics of a new literary genre
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description: This article analyzes a category of contemporary literature that focuses on mutants, cyborgs, chimeras or post-animals according to a critical approach, with its two political and poetic axes, entitled here technopoetics, namely the poetics of life forms conceived in fluidity and impacted by technoscientific and ecological issues. The article suggests a reflection on a new literary genre. In addition to the obvious thematic dimension, this intellectual fiction is distinguished by its narratological references, but also by the different strategies studied in the article. The comparative corpus shows that these works contribute to modulating a new genre in dialogue with different social sciences.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
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subject: antropocentricism ecocentrism, literary genre, technopoetics
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creator: Mara Magda Maftei
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 197
ending page: 209

Morphology of posthuman literature in the contemporary extreme French-speaking world
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description: This paper is dedicated to theorizing the distinctive morphological characteristics of posthuman literature, which is thus proposed as a new categorical concept. The study focuses primarily on two fundamental features in this context that outline the boundaries of the literary posthuman: the phylogenetic character of the posthuman narrative and its anti-thanatographic dimension. The corpus covered is essentially limited to contemporary extreme Francophone literature.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: Posthuman
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subject: Literary genre
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subject: francophone literature
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creator: Mohamed Sami Alloun
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 113
ending page: 130

Going Green in a Post-Gender World
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description: Verts [Green] (2024), a graphic novel by Patrick Lacan and Marion Besançon, and “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” (2020), a short story by Daryl Gregory, feature the transformation of the world in contact with a plant epidemic. Comparing them enables me to interrogate science fiction topoi from the queer perspective of their characters. In these works, the mutant is less important than the mutation, and kinships open up to Other-than-humans, in defense of a queer futurity. In the face of crises, popular culture thus seems to be developing a posthuman aesthetic based on a renewed apprehension of the pandemic.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: mutant
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subject: queer
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subject: science-fiction
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subject: ecology
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creator: David Rioton
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 161
ending page: 174

Entretien avec Norbert Merjagnan (dossier "Nouveaux mutants", partie "Débats")
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description: Réalisé en janvier 2025 pour intégrer la partie "Débats" du dossier que je coordonne, cet entretien met à l'honneur la pensée et le travail d'écriture du romancier et scénariste français Norbert Merjagnan, proche d'Alain Damasio.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: science-fiction, mutant, écologie
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creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 281
ending page: 292

Le misérable mutant : « The Golden Man » de P. K. Dick, de l’intertextualité à la métafiction
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description: À première vue, « The Golden Man » de P. K. Dick (1954) reprend les stéréotypes du mutant ressassés dans les magazines de science-fiction et annonce les enjeux qui caractérisent les écrits plus tardifs de l’écrivain. La novella relate la découverte du mutant Cris Johnson, doté d’une peau dorée, d’une dextérité et d’une vitesse éblouissantes, et de la capacité à connaître les événements trente minutes avant qu’ils ne se produisent. Cris montre cependant des limitations intellectuelles importantes. Les indices narratifs, les topoï des récits de mutants ainsi que le premier support de publication invitent les lecteurs à adopter un point de vue similaire à celui de Cris : connaître l’avenir et imaginer des scénarios cohérents. Or, cette capacité mentale ressemble aussi au travail de l’écrivain. L’intertextualité et la métafictionnalité de la novella favorisent l’implication des lecteurs. Le récit renégocie les dichotomies afin de mettre en place une dynamique d’invention : les tensions engagent une herméneutique stimulant les réflexions sur les conventions d’écriture et aussi les frontières de l’humain. Les interrogations sur l’identité, l’avenir de l’humanité et le pouvoir de la fiction anticipatoire se cristallisent autour du misérable mutant dickien qui oblige les lecteurs à remettre en question les hiérarchies. En ce sens, la science-fiction peut être un outil d’élaboration d’une démarche prospective et d’encapacitation de l’individu. L’anticipation peut alors être considérée tant comme un sous-genre littéraire que comme une compétence induite par ce dernier. At first glance, Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man” (1954) reprises the familiar mutant stereotypes circulating in science-fiction magazines and anticipates the concerns that would come to define the author’s later writings. The novella recounts the discovery of the mutant Cris Johnson, whose golden skin, dazzling dexterity and speed, and ability to foresee events thirty minutes before they occur set him apart. …
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: science-fiction, mutant, prégognition, métafiction, agency
  topic: keywords
creator: Manuela Mohr
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 33
ending page: 49

Mutant Languages: Linguistic Hybridity and Posthuman Identities in Popular Culture
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description: Language mutates. It no longer merely accompanies shifts in identity—it inscribes them, shapes them, makes them possible. In a body of narratives where the human becomes unstable and the boundaries between the organic and the technological begin to blur, speech is never a given. It is reprogrammed, bypassed, or redirected through alternative forms of exchange, and alters not just communication but perception, thought, and the world itself. This article explores three lines of linguistic mutation—codification, erasure, and cognitive reconfiguration—and asks what remains of our ways of existing when language, too, begins to waver.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: linguistic mutation
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subject: posthumanism
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subject: transhumanism
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subject: science
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subject: mutant
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subject: hybridity
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subject: alterity
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subject: artificial intelligence
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subject: cognition
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subject: language power
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subject: communication
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subject: ecocriticism
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creator: Marjorie Sabbatorsi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 95
ending page: 112

Entretien avec Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (dossier "Nouveaux mutants", partie "Débats")
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description: Entretien avec l'un des plus grands spécialistes français de l'IA, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: intelligence artificielle, transhumanisme, mythe de la singularité
  topic: keywords
creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 257
ending page: 267

Ways of being mutant: metamorphosis and hybridization as empowerment of the 'weak' in Game of Thrones
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description: This article analyzes the series Game of Thrones through the notion of mutation, conceived as a dynamic of power acquisition. We examine two transformation tropes to show how the series contrasts Daenerys’s spectacular metamorphosis with Bran’s shamanic hybridization, the latter emerging as an alternative to traditional power structures. Through a philosophical and anthropological approach, we explore how Game of Thrones reshapes the boundaries between the human and the non-human, thereby opening a reflection on contemporary forms of power.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: mutant
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subject: metamorphosis
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subject: hybridization
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subject: power
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subject: Game of Thrones
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subject: natureculture
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creator: Bruno Vergnes
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 131
ending page: 143

Entretien avec Marc Atallah (dossier "Mutants", coordinatrice : Nathalie Dufayet)
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description: Cet entretien est à verser dans la partie "Débats" du dossier que je coordonne sur le thème "Les Nouveaux Mutants : sémiologie du désastre et (contre)utopie posthumaniste". Marc Atallah est Maître d’enseignement et de recherche à la Section de français de l’Université de Lausanne. Après avoir dirigé "la Maison d’Ailleurs" pendant treize ans, il a fondé "nARTative SA", une société de créateurs culturels, notamment en charge du Digital Dreams Festival, dont la première édition s’est tenue en 2024. À l’UNIL, ses recherches portent sur les littératures conjecturales – l’utopie, la dystopie et la science-fiction – et sur les théories de la fiction.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: science-fiction, transhumanisme, mutant
  topic: keywords
creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 293
ending page: 302

Entretien avec Eric Fourneret (dossier "Mutants", coordinatrice : Nathalie DUFAYET)
type: item
description: Cet entretien est à verser dans la partie "Débats" du dossier que je coordonne sur le thème "Les Nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire : sémiologie du désastre et (contre)utopie posthumaniste". Eric Fourneret est Maître de conférences en philosophie, spécialisé sur les questions éthiques en matière de philosophie de la technique. Il est membre de l'équipe ETH+ ("Éthique, Technologies et Humanités") au sein de l'unité de recherche ETHICS de l'Université catholique de Lille.
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: Transhumanisme, intelligence artificielle, mutant, cyborg
  topic: keywords
creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 269
ending page: 280

Entretien avec Alexandre Moatti (Nathalie Dufayet, coordinatrice dossier "Mutants")
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description: Cet entretien est à verser dans la partie "Débats" du dossier que je coordonne sur le thème "Les Nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire : sémiologie du désastre et (contre)utopie posthumaniste". Alexandre Moatti est polytechnicien, ingénieur des Mines et historien des sciences, aujourd’hui chercheur associé HDR à l'Université Paris-Cité. Il a reçu en 2016 le Prix Diderot-Curien de l'AMCSTI [réseau professionnel des cultures scientifique, technique et industrielle]. Ses principaux ouvrages sont : Alterscience : postures, dogmes, idéologies (2013), Aux Racines du transhumanisme en France : 1930-1980 (2020) et Technocratisme : les grands corps à la dérive (2023).
subject: Les nouveaux mutants de la culture populaire
  topic: section
subject: posthumanisme, transhumanisme, science, mutant
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creator: NATHALIE DUFAYET
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Études littéraires
date: 2026-02-13
publication date: 2026-02-13
starting page: 243
ending page: 255

From the Already Said to the Unspoken: Repetitions and Inversions in Les Demi-sexes by Jane de la Vaudère (1897)
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description: According to the norms of the sapphic novel – which, from the libertine novels of the late eighteenth century to fin de siècle writings, developed its own set of stylistic, aesthetic, and narrative conventions – Les Demi-sexes, published in 1897 by Jane de la Vaudère, does not, at first glance, appear to depart. Yet this register of the “over-said” cannot be considered apart from what it conceals: a set of dissonances within the tightly woven narrative fabric shaped by the Decadent tradition and, above all, a complex play around plagiarism. This depth of the said and this work of reiteration-with-a-difference open a breach toward what the discourse itself denies.
subject: Études
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subject: Jane de la Vaudère
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subject: gender
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subject: plagiarism
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subject: intertextuality
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subject: lesbianism
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subject: Decadence
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subject: Les Demi-sexes
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subject: unspoken
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creator: Camille Islert
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 161
ending page: 177

Poetics of Suggestion and Sexual Subtexts of Gendered Violence in Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde (1884) and Bruges-la-Morte by Rodenbach (1892)
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description: This article examines the sexist and sexual subtexts in two fin de siècle novels depicting femicide: Rachilde’s Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte (1892). Returning to the genetic development of the works, it outlines the key features of the poetics of suggestion and the suggestive at play in both novels, highlighting the hybridization of Decadent and Symbolist aesthetics. The textual analysis, in turn, reveals the paradoxical inversion of the semantic field of eroticism within the discourse of violence as a means of subverting established codes.
subject: Études
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subject: Monsieur Vénus
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subject: Rachilde
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subject: Bruges-la-Morte
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subject: Rodenbach
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subject: femicide
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subject: representation of femicide
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subject: sexist and sexual subtexts
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subject: poetics of suggestion
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subject: Decadent movement
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subject: symbolism
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creator: Elinor Knutsen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 123
ending page: 141

Failures of the Sexual Order : “Male Brutality” and Female Dissatisfaction in Selected Sandian Texts from 1832
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description: This article examines, in the novel Indiana and the short story “La Marquise” – both written and published in 1832 by George Sand – the disruptions in the sociocultural construction of sexuality in relation to the expectations of conjugal duty in the early nineteenth century. By studying certain sexual scripts that shape identities, it identifies the ways in which Sand’s texts (un)veil sexual taboos (incontinence and male violence) and articulate female desire (and its dissatisfaction).
subject: Études
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subject: George Sand
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subject: Indiana
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subject: "La Marquise"
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subject: sexual scripts
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subject: female desire
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subject: male violence
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subject: 1832
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creator: Sophie Ménard
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 49
ending page: 63

This Unnameable Desire: Incest as Apocalypse in the Decadent Novel (1884–1897)
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description: The end of the nineteenth century left its mark on literary history through its taste for excess, emphasis, and transgression. In their portrayals of consensual incestuous relationships within the same family, Élémir Bourges, Rachilde, and Catulle Mendès draw on the taboo to sharpen the boundary between the licit and the illicit. While Decadence was preoccupied with staging its own demise, its literary treatment of incest shows it on the brink – aware of its self-destruction, yet equally conscious of an imminent return to order.
subject: Études
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subject: incest
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subject: Rachilde
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subject: Catulle Mendès
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subject: Decadence
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subject: fin de siècle
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subject: Élémir Bourges
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subject: Wagner
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creator: Marie Kawthar Daouda
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 101
ending page: 122

Metamorphosis of Genres : Misgendering the Reading in Novembre (1842) and Madame Bovary (1857)
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description: In his 1857 interpretation, Baudelaire is the first to misgender Emma Bovary, opening the way for a reading of the play of gender inversions rarely taken seriously by literary criticism. This article therefore seeks to demonstrate, question, and unsettle the ambiguities of gender in Flaubert’s writing, positing that there is a major unspoken element in his poetics : from Novembre (1842) to Madame Bovary (1857), one can discern an ambivalent weaving of desire and identification. Postmodern in spirit and inspired by queering, this reading aims to reveal the family resemblance between the two works.
subject: Études
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subject: Novembre
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subject: Gustave Flaubert
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subject: Madame Bovary
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subject: queer
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subject: feminism
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subject: famme fatale
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creator: Léonore Brassard
creator: David Bélanger
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 65
ending page: 81

Seeing Male Homosexuality Differently: L’Autre vue by Georges Eekhoud (1904)
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description: Although male homosexuality is never explicitly named in L’Autre vue (1904) by Belgian author Georges Eekhoud, numerous clues suggest that it is the novel’s central subject and that it can be reread from a queer perspective. Theories of the unreliable narrator reveal the presence of not one but two homosexual characters : Paridael and Bergmans. Once unmasked, the latter provides access to a militant discourse in favor of legitimizing homosexuality in the novel’s central section – Paridael’s diary – by merging two levels of reading : an explicit social and political discourse that conceals an implicit homosexual one.
subject: Études
  topic: section
subject: male homosexuality
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subject: Belgian literature
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subject: 19th century
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subject: novel
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subject: unreliable narrator
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creator: Eloïse Grommerch
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 179
ending page: 200

When the “White Flight of Lesbians” Passes By: Writing Without Saying, or the Suggestion of Lesbianism in La Curée (1871)
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description: While the association between naturalism and pornography predominates in the nineteenth century, addressing sexuality is a real balancing act for Zola. He even stated that he did not wish to devote a novel to homosexuality. Yet in La Curée, allusions to sapphism abound. To understand the construction of lesbianism in the work, as well as the implications of such a portrayal, this article analyzes Zola’s language, his place within the social discourse of his time, and – through a genetic study – his hesitations regarding the sexuality of his characters.
subject: Études
  topic: section
subject: lesbianism
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subject: gender
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subject: female homosexuality
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subject: Émile Zola
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subject: naturalism
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subject: 19th century
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creator: Shauna Heck
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 83
ending page: 99

Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse’s “La chasse aux papillons”, or the Ambiguities of the Unspoken in the Female Erotic Novel (1807–1809)
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description: Although Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse’s work – still largely overlooked by literary historians – openly explores the sexual lives of female characters, the author’s erotic novels devote considerable attention to the unspoken dimensions of female sexuality. This article examines the narrative and poetic functions of these silences, notably in Julie, ou j’ai sauvé ma rose (1807). The aim is to interrogate their literary and ideological implications to better understand the specificities of women’s erotic fiction emerging at the turn of the Enlightenment.
subject: Études
  topic: section
subject: sexuality
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subject: consent
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subject: Choiseul-Meuse
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subject: novels
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subject: eroticism
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subject: female author
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creator: Mélissa Thiriot
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 33
ending page: 47

“So, You Are Never Ailing ?” : The Silences Surrounding Oophorectomy in Les Demi-sexes by Jane de la Vaudère (1897) and Les Florifères by Camille Pert (1898)
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description: This article examines the unspoken dimensions surrounding oophorectomy in the novels Les Demi-sexes and Les Florifères. The female characters in these works seek, through the operation, to free themselves from purely reproductive sexuality. Drawing on discursive and narrative analysis, we show that these characters ultimately find themselves at the mercy of men who threaten to expose their secret. Even when the unspoken becomes temporarily half-spoken, then spoken within the closed circle of those who have undergone the operation, these women still suffer from this silence, reproduce it, and are themselves its product.
subject: Études
  topic: section
subject: gender
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subject: oophorectomy
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subject: ovariectomy
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subject: unspoken
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subject: silence(s)
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subject: fin de siècle
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subject: marriage
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subject: motherhood
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creator: Camille Clère
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Études littéraires
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 143
ending page: 159