Breaking free from the mesmerizing idea of the literary work: critical benchmarks on the performativity and the reception of literary arts

Abstract

This article aims to affirm on a theoretical level what the literary arts, understood as writing practices outside the book, cause as both conceptual as empirical displacements with regard to the literary activity as it is commonly envisaged. The double question of performativity and reception of these types of productions is at the heart of the problematization: on the basis of five key points, we try to better define these works, practices and creative modalities which open to other uses and regimes of experience of the literary fact, by impelling movement in interartistic relations. This article is the result of a collective process of reflection that was carried out in collaboration with the participants of a scientific meeting held on this theme in October 2022.