Editors’ introduction

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Notes

1. Our attempt can be inscribed in an already long tradition, as reflected by the (very partial) bibliography to be found at the end of this introduction.

2. See Camille Dumoulié, Littérature et Philosophie: Le Gai Savoir de la littérature. (Paris: Armand Colin, 2002).

3. See Bibliography.

4. Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel, trans. Kate Briggs, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) p. 174. Emphasis in the original.

5. See Jacques Rancière, Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics, Trans. James Swenson, (New York: New Directions in Critical Theory, 2011) and The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing, Trans. Charlotte Mandel, (Stanford University Press, 2004.)