Literature in the service of heritage

Another brick in the wall? Literature at the service of heritage

Author(s)

  • Mathilde Labbé University of Nantes
  • Marcela Scibiorska FNRS - Université Libre de Bruxelles & Vrije Universiteit Brussel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief21159

Keywords:

literary landscape , heritagization , aesthetic capitalism , instrumentalization of literature , artialization , literary intervention , heritage boom , literary tourism

Abstract

As the bearer of values and imaginary worlds, literature can be both a heritage and a heritage tool, thanks to its ability to confer legitimacy on certain objects or discourses. In general, it is the symbolic capital of works, rather than their critical function, that underpins the selection, conservation, mediation and transmission operations that contribute to this heritage-building process. But how are we to understand the transfer of values that underpins these exchanges, when literature is mobilized to defend objects that are already part of a heritage that has been or is being built up? Beyond the dynamics of legitimization, this issue aims to explore the economic, emotional, communicational and even political implications of the mobilization of literature by other heritage objects such as museums, monuments and landscapes. Its aim is to highlight the articulation or continuum of relations of exposure, valorization and recovery between literature and heritage, and to ask whether it is possible to identify any structural characteristics.

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Author Biographies

  • Mathilde Labbé, University of Nantes

    Mathilde Labbé is a lecturer in French Literature (19th-20th centuries) at the University of Nantes and a member of the LAMO laboratory. Her research focuses on the phenomena of reception, intermedia circulation and heritagization of literature, and in particular on their interactions with the redefinition of the canon in the second 20th century. Following a thesis on the reception of Baudelaire's work, she has worked on monumental representations of writers and literature, and on literary heritage in publishing strategies (see publications). She is currently pursuing her research within the “PatrimoniaLitté” research network and as a delegate to the UMR Héritages : Culture(s), Patrimoine(s), Création(s) (2024-2025).

  • Marcela Scibiorska, FNRS - Université Libre de Bruxelles & Vrije Universiteit Brussel

    Marcela Scibiorska is an FNRS post-doctoral fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After completing her thesis on the Albums de la Pléiade (KU Leuven and Sorbonne University), she worked on phototextual country portraits at the Guilde du livre (University of Lausanne) and on the handling of images by avant-garde writers (UCLouvain -ERC HANDING). More broadly, she is interested in the interactions between texts and images in the construction of the authorial image, the processes of heritagization of literature and the relationship between literature and advertising

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Published

2024-12-18

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2024): The Literarization of Heritage

Section

Editorial

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How to Cite

Labbé, M. and Scibiorska, M. (2024) “Literature in the service of heritage: Another brick in the wall? Literature at the service of heritage”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 18(2), pp. 1–18. doi:10.51777/relief21159.