Sociocritique et médiations

Abstract

Having become central in the sociology of art and music, the concepts of mediation and mediators have received little echo in the literary field. Despite the opening of some theorists of social criticism (Duchet, Cros, Viala), these notions have had a long dormant among both sociologists —literature outside their attention to the institutional mediations (price, academies, salons)— that among researchers— rather concerned about the trends of the “social” or “discourse” in that they weigh about literature. This communication will take advantage of the rapprochement between social criticism and related approaches (discourse analysis, sociology of literature, study of myths and postures copyright, cultural history, etc..) and  thus questioning the joints between individual and the collective in the literary field. It will aim to better understand conceptually mediations and placed in the center of an enterprise of triangulation between text, discursive configurations and settings socio-historical. Through the mediation of speech review, institutions or the social imaginary, will be outlined a research program whose ultimate goal is to reintegrate social criticism in an interdisciplinary perspective. The situation in-between made explicit mediations Is not indeed at the heart of the approach sociocriticism?