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Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes 9 f&#233;vrier 2018Cofinanc&#233; par : The New Chaucer SocietyArgumentaireGeoffrey Chaucer, grand traducteur, rh&#233;toricien et po&#232;te courtois, fut longtemps consid&#233;r&#233; par la critique comme le p&#232;re de la po&#233;sie anglaise. Or, un tel positionnement a non seulement tendance &#224; occulter tout un pan de l&#8217;histoire de la litt&#233;rature anglo-saxonne, mais &#233;galement &#224; mettre de c&#244;t&#233; les sp&#233;cificit&#233;s m&#234;mes du style de Chaucer. Il a &#233;t&#233; d&#233;montr&#233; que sa contribution &#224; l&#8217;histoire de la litt&#233;rature est bien plus importante qu&#8217;on ne le pensait. Car en d&#233;cidant d&#8217;&#233;crire en moyen-anglais &#224; une &#233;poque o&#249; l&#8217;h&#233;g&#233;monie du latin et du vieux-fran&#231;ais &#233;tait incontest&#233;e (en particulier &#224; la cour d&#8217;Edouard III et de Richard II), Chaucer s&#8217;inscrivit dans un mouvement intellectuel visant &#224; rendre aux vernaculaires europ&#233;ens le prestige n&#233;cessaire &#224; une v&#233;ritable production culturelle ayant permit l&#8217;&#233;mergence du genre romanesque. Ainsi, en assimilant successivement les caract&#233;ristiques de la po&#233;sie de Chr&#233;tien de Troyes, Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun, Chaucer redonna &#224; la po&#233;sie anglaise ses lettres de noblesse. Mais ce ne fut qu&#8217;apr&#232;s sa d&#233;couverte de la Divina Commedia qu&#8217;il prit conscience du potentiel de la litt&#233;rature&#160;: Dante lui permit, en effet, de lib&#233;rer son art dialogique et d&#8217;ainsi donner &#224; sa po&#233;sie une dimension polyphonique de premier ordre. De fait, si Chaucer ne peut &#234;tre consid&#233;r&#233; comme le p&#232;re de la po&#233;sie anglaise, il est en revanche le p&#232;re de la prose anglaise et l&#8217;un des pr&#233;curseurs de ce que Mikha&#239;l Bakhtine nomme le roman polyphonique.Nous proposons ainsi, dans cette journ&#233;e d&#8217;&#233;tude, de continuer &#224; questionner le rapport entre la polyphonie et l&#8217;art et d&#8217;&#233;tendre cette r&#233;flexion &#224; d&#8217;autres po&#232;tes et p&#233;riodes. Ce faisant, nous esp&#233;rons mieux cerner et d&#233;finir le lien entre le m&#233;di&#233;val et le moderne &#224; travers des &#233;tudes soulignant le r&#244;le central jou&#233; par la polyphonie &#8211; voire m&#234;me les polyphonies &#8211; tant dans l&#8217;&#233;volution de l&#8217;art (le gothique vient naturellement &#224; l&#8217;esprit) que dans la d&#233;finition m&#234;me des territoires linguistiques europ&#233;ens.&#160;ProgrammeVendredi 9 f&#233;vrierGrande salle des colloques, b&#226;timent Stendhal9h Accueil des participantsSession 1Pr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : S&#233;bastien Scarpa9h30 &#8211; 10h&#160;Laurence Doucet (Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, Litt&#38;Arts) Cemeteries and Tombstones as Polyphonic Places in the French Medieval Quest of Lancelot10h30 &#8211; 11h&#160;Caroline Berton&#232;che (Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA 4) &#171; &#180;Tis more ancient than Chaucer Himself &#187;: Keats and Romantic Polyphony11h30 &#8211; 12h Questions12h30 &#8211; 14h D&#233;jeuner&#160;&#160;Session pl&#233;ni&#232;rePr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : Jonathan Fruoco14h &#8211; 15h&#160;Paul Strohm (Columbia University) Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus15h &#8211; 15h30 QuestionsSession 3Pr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : Cyril Besson15h:30 &#8211; 16h&#160;Juliette Dor (Universit&#233; de Li&#232;ge) Lire Chaucer au prisme de la polyphonie16h &#8211; 16h30&#160;Jonathan Fruoco (Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA 4)&#160;&#8216;Turnynge over the leef&#8217;: Chaucer and the&#160;English Novel16h30 &#8211; 17h QuestionsUniversit&#233; Grenoble Alpes 9 f&#233;vrier 2018ArgumentGeoffrey Chaucer, translator, rhetorician and courtly poet, has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer&#8217;s style. It has been shown that his contribution to the history of literature is much more important than we had previously imagined. Indeed, Chaucer&#8217;s decision to write in Middle-English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old-French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. The assimilation of the specificities of the poetry of Chr&#233;tien de Troyes, Guillaume de Lorris, and Jean de Meun thus allowed Chaucer to give back to English poetry some of its respectability. Nonetheless, it was his discovery of the Divina Commedia that made him aware of the true potential of literature: Dante thus allowed him to free the dialogism of his creations and to give his poetry a first-rate polyphonic dimension. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.We thus propose, during this study day, to keep on questioning the relationship between polyphony and art, and to extend this reflection to other poets and periods. In doing so, we hope to better understand and define the link between the medieval and the early modern thanks to studies underlining the role played by polyphony &#8211; or even polyphonies &#8211; both in the evolution of art (Gothic art naturally comes to mind) and in the very definition of European linguistic territories.ProgramVendredi 9 f&#233;vrierGrande salle des colloques, b&#226;timent Stendhal9h Accueil des participantsSession 1Pr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : S&#233;bastien Scarpa9h30 &#8211; 10h&#160;Laurence Doucet&#160;(Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, Litt&#38;Arts)&#160;Cemeteries and Tombstones as Polyphonic Places in the French Medieval Quest of Lancelot10h30 &#8211; 11h&#160;Caroline Berton&#232;che&#160;(Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA 4)&#160;&#171; &#180;Tis more ancient than Chaucer Himself &#187;: Keats and Romantic Polyphony11h30 &#8211; 12h Questions12h30 &#8211; 14h D&#233;jeuner&#160;&#160;Session pl&#233;ni&#232;rePr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : Jonathan Fruoco14h &#8211; 15h&#160;Paul Strohm&#160;(Columbia University)&#160;Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus15h &#8211; 15h30 QuestionsSession 3Pr&#233;sident de s&#233;ance : Cyril Besson15h:30 &#8211; 16h&#160;Juliette Dor&#160;(Universit&#233; de Li&#232;ge)&#160;Lire Chaucer au prisme de la polyphonie16h &#8211; 16h30&#160;Jonathan Fruoco&#160;(Universit&#233; Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA 4)&#160;&#8216;Turnynge over the leef&#8217;: Chaucer and the&#160;English Novel16h30 &#8211; 17h Questions