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These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity


Jean-Luc Fournet


Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and...

Publication date: 2018-11-19
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Literatures of Medieval France


Michel Zink


This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the...

Publication date: 2017-02-12
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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What is Literature for?


Antoine Compagnon


Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My...

Publication date: 2014-02-06
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Can China Think?


Anne Cheng


Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual...

Publication date: 2013-05-22
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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