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Recherches et travaux is a journal with a modern and contemporary perspective, devoted to the French language and literature in French from the 19th to 21st centuries, to comparative literature, to the relationship between literature and the arts and to the teaching of literature. Each issue is thematic and focuses on a specific question of literature and aesthetics.

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106 | 2025
Ethos manifestaire : modes d’énonciation et spécificités génériques du manifeste

Manifesto Ethos: Modes of Enunciation and Generic Specificities of the Manifesto
Edited by Sarah-Jeanne Beauchamp Houde and Laurie-Anne Laget

The present dossier is dedicated to the modes of enunciation and generic specificities of the manifesto.
Three introductory contributions consider the manifesto through different theoretical approaches: the question of literary genre and the main difficulties it raises when considered in relation to a fundamentally multi-faceted object; that of gender studies to redefine the “prototype” of the manifesto from the perspective of a gender history; and that of the poetics of the medium as the foundation of the “manifesto-effect” embodied in many protest writings.
Then three case studies focus on the avant-garde, a time when production was has been as prolific as it has been varied: the first on the unusual discursive ethos elaborated by filmmaker Nelly Kaplan in Manifeste d’un art nouveau : la polyvision; a second one about two atypical forms of manifesto and counter-manifesto, in order to explore the margins of the construction of the manifesto ethos; and a third focusing on the MANART project, a database devoted to artistic and literary manifestos, whose structure is designed in relation to the specific characteristics of this genre.
A concluding essay extends the reflection into the 21st century, by offering a reflection on the multiple “language games” (Wittgenstein) that the word manifesto produces today.

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