French Literature Reviews - 2026

What is Happening? Events, Humanities, and Literature
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics

Didier Alexandre, Madeleine Frédéric, Sabrina Parent, and Michèle Touret (eds.), Que se passe-t-il ? Événements, sciences humaines et littérature, “Interférences” series, 2004, 256 p., €17.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

What is happening? The papers collected in this volume examine the concept of the event across the fields of literature and the humanities. Historians, mediologists, journalists, philosophers, linguists, stylisticians, and literary scholars offer studies on event-objects that require conceptual frameworks and methodologies drawn from multiple disciplinary critical traditions.

The study of the event has long occupied a central place in the humanities, moving beyond simple historical chronology to consider how occurrences are constructed, perceived, and narrated. This volume, Que se passe-t-il ? Événements, sciences humaines et littérature, brings together perspectives from history, philosophy, linguistics, and literary studies to examine the concept of the event across the fields of literature and the humanities.

The papers collected in this volume examine the concept of the event across the fields of literature and the humanities, utilizing methodologies drawn from multiple disciplinary critical traditions including mediology, journalism, and stylistics. Readers interested in the intersection of narrative theory and the philosophy of history may find this collection relevant.