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Conf&#233;rence Internationale - LERMA (EA 853) Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; (5-7 octobre 2018)ArgumentaireCette conf&#233;rence interdisciplinaire a pour objectif de mettre en lumi&#232;re le r&#244;le des big magazines en mati&#232;re de production, de publication, de distribution et de r&#233;ception de la litt&#233;rature am&#233;ricaine entre 1880 et 1960.Dans le champ des &#233;tudes modernistes, l&#8217;int&#233;r&#234;t port&#233; &#224; la question des relations entre modernisme et production p&#233;riodique est loin de repr&#233;senter un ph&#233;nom&#232;ne nouveau. Depuis une trentaine d&#8217;ann&#233;es, les recherches men&#233;es sur le r&#244;le des &#171; petites revues &#187; ont ainsi contribu&#233; &#224; faire de la revue non plus un &#171; simple contenant de bribes d&#8217;informations concr&#232;tes &#187;, mais un &#171; objet d&#8217;&#233;tude &#224; part enti&#232;re &#187;, au m&#234;me titre que le livre individuel (Latham, Scholes).Pourtant, l&#8217;&#233;tude de ce champ a quelque peu fauss&#233; le regard critique sur les liens entre publications p&#233;riodiques et pratiques modernistes. En s&#8217;int&#233;ressant de mani&#232;re quasi exclusive aux little reviews, on a eu tendance &#224; cloisonner la r&#233;flexion en isolant ce type de publication p&#233;riodique des autres magazines de l&#8217;&#233;poque (notamment les magazines pulps, traditionnellement associ&#233;s &#224; la culture lowbrow, et les &#171; grandes &#187; revues&#8212;aussi appel&#233;es slick, smart, mainstream ou big&#8212;associ&#233;es &#224; la culture middlebrow). Ce faisant, on a &#233;galement rel&#233;gu&#233; ces derniers, dans le meilleur des cas, aux confins n&#233;buleux de la sph&#232;re culturelle moderniste. Ce n&#8217;est que r&#233;cemment que nous assistons &#224; un changement d&#8217;orientation : une analyse approfondie des relations institutionnelles entre modernisme litt&#233;raire et culture mainstream dans des magazines middlebrow comme Life (premi&#232;re mouture) ou des revues smart, comme The Smart Set, Vanity Fair ou The New Yorker, a permis de mettre au jour une v&#233;ritable dynamique fond&#233;e sur les associations, les croisements et les &#233;changes.Dans le sillage du renouvellement de ces approches, cette conf&#233;rence vise &#224; &#233;largir l&#8217;&#233;tude des liens entre la litt&#233;rature am&#233;ricaine et la presse magazine mainstream en attirant l&#8217;attention sur &#171; des publications p&#233;riodiques qui, par-del&#224; leur &#233;clectisme, t&#233;moignent d&#8217;une m&#234;me volont&#233;, non seulement d&#8217;augmenter leur chiffre de ventes, mais aussi d&#8217;&#233;largir leur lectorat en misant davantage sur leur style textuel et visuel que sur leur seul contenu &#187; (Harris, 6). Le terme &#171; presse magazine &#187; recouvre un large &#233;ventail de revues (Harper&#8217;s, Scribner&#8217;s, Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Reader&#8217;s Digest, Life ou encore le Time d&#8217;Henry Luce) unies par leur ambition de s&#8217;adresser &#224; un large public &#224; l&#8217;&#233;chelle nationale et, pour la plupart d&#8217;entre elles, d&#8217;influencer les go&#251;ts culturels, litt&#233;raires et politiques de la classe moyenne. &#192; ces publications viennent s&#8217;ajouter d&#8217;autres revues &#224; l&#8217;envergure nationale mais aux politiques &#233;ditoriales davantage circonscrites car dict&#233;es par des crit&#232;res id&#233;ologiques (McClure&#8217;s), ethniques (The Crisis) ou genr&#233;s (tels Munsey&#8217;s ou Ladies&#8217; Home Journal pour la presse f&#233;minine et Esquire et ses successeurs, notamment Playboy, pour la presse masculine).Nous souhaitons mettre en lumi&#232;re les interactions entre ces revues et les pr&#233;occupations litt&#233;raires et esth&#233;tiques du modernisme. La p&#233;riode choisie couvre 80 ans, de la naissance de la presse &#224; grand tirage et du &#171; magazine sous sa forme moderne &#187; (Scholes) &#224; l&#8217;av&#232;nement de la t&#233;l&#233;vision comme m&#233;dia de premier plan et le d&#233;clin cons&#233;cutif du magazine comme &#171; principal vecteur culturel aux &#201;tats-Unis &#187; (Ohmann, 29). Au regard de l&#8217;importance des influences transatlantiques (on pense par exemple aux liens entre Cond&#233; Nast et Lucien Vogel, le cr&#233;ateur de Vogue France en 1920, ou encore au r&#244;le de Vu dans la cr&#233;ation du deuxi&#232;me Life en 1936), nous souhaiterions &#233;galement examiner la production p&#233;riodique fran&#231;aise sous l&#8217;angle transnational et transatlantique.Axes th&#233;matiquesLa r&#233;flexion pourra s&#8217;articuler autour des questions suivantes :parall&#232;les, intersections, croisements et &#233;changes entre petite revues, magazines middlebrow et magazine pulps ;influences sur la production litt&#233;raire (formes, contenus, imagination) ;r&#244;le des magazines sur la creative nonfiction ;r&#244;le des magazines en mati&#232;re de pr&#233;occupations financi&#232;res et commerciales et de politiques &#233;ditoriales ;liens, interactions et r&#233;seaux (&#233;crivains, &#233;diteurs, r&#233;dacteurs et agents) ;construction de &#171; milieux litt&#233;raires complexes &#187; (Ohmann) ;le style comme outil de promotion ;liens avec le ph&#233;nom&#232;ne de la c&#233;l&#233;brit&#233; et l&#8217;&#233;mergence de la celebrity culture ;entretiens, portraits et r&#244;le culturel de l&#8217;&#233;crivain ;r&#244;le des magazines dans l&#8217;institutionnalisation et la professionnalisation de la litt&#233;rature ;croisements et &#233;changes transatlantiques.Cette liste n&#8217;est pas limitative.Modalit&#233;s de soumissionLes propositions n'exc&#233;deront pas 450 mots.Au moment de d&#233;poser votre proposition dans la zone de texte, merci de bien vouloir y int&#233;grer une courte biobibliographie.D&#233;lai de soumission des propositions: 25 ao&#251;t 2017&#160;Pour plus d'informations, et pour soumettre une proposition, suivre le lienhttps://bigmagazines.sciencesconf.org/OrganizationC&#233;cile Cottenet (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Anne Reynes-Delobel (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Frank Conesa (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Comit&#233; scientifiqueH&#233;l&#232;ne Aji (Universit&#233; Paris Nanterre)C&#233;cile Cottenet (Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)Sean Latham (University of Tulsa)C&#233;line Mansanti (Universit&#233; de Picardie Jules Verne)Mark Morrisson (Penn State University)Beno&#238;t Tadi&#233; (Universit&#233; Rennes 2)Anne Reynes-Delobel (Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)Interdisciplinary conference,&#160;Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;, LERMA (EA 853),&#160;Aix-en-Provence, France, October&#160;5-&#160;7, 2018ArgumentThis interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the role played by &#8220;Big Magazines&#8221; in the production, publication, circulation, and reception of American literature between 1880 and 1960.&#160;The study of modernism&#8217;s relations to the press and periodical culture is certainly not new to Modernist Studies. Over the last three decades, sustained interest in the role played by &#8220;little magazines&#8221; has been instrumental in reorienting the conventional reading of magazines &#8220;merely as containers of concrete bits of information&#8221; to an approach that considers them as &#8220;autonomous objects of study,&#8221; comparable with individual books (Latham and Scholes) in the field of modernism.&#160;However, this interest has, so far, been directed mostly towards little magazines, as if these were the only periodicals intersecting with modernist practices. In doing so, it has tended to insulate little magazines as a field separate from other kinds of contemporary periodicals (the lowbrow pulps, the middlebrow slick/smart/mainstream/big periodicals), reducing the latter, at best, to a kind of dim cultural fringe or hinterland of modernism. It is only recently that modernist studies have begun to deal directly with the institutional overlap of literary modernism and middlebrow culture, enriching our understanding of their deep affiliations, by focusing on such middlebrow and smart magazines as&#160;Life&#160;(in its first form),&#160;The Smart Set,&#160;Vanity Fair&#160;or&#160;The New Yorker.In the wake of such studies, the purpose of this conference is to expand consideration of the connection between American literature and mainstream print culture so as to include &#8220;an eclectic range of periodical genres&#160;having in common, beyond the necessary qualification of being unapologetically commercial, &#8230;a conscious effort to expand their readerships by way of their textual and visual styles rather than their content&#8221;(Harris, 6). Mainstream print culture includes a vast array of diverse magazines, united by their ambition to speak to a wide national audience and, often, to forge the cultural, literary and political tastes of the middle class, with periodicals such as&#160;Harper&#8217;s,&#160;Scribner&#8217;s,&#160;Saturday Evening Post,&#160;Atlantic Monthly,Reader&#8217;s Digest,&#160;Life&#160;or Henry Luce&#8217;s&#160;Time. To this same field of national periodicals one can also relate magazines with a narrower editorial scope, selecting their audience on an ideological (McClure&#8217;s) or ethnic (The Crisis) basis, or along gender lines, as with the women-oriented&#160;Munsey&#8217;s&#160;and&#160;Ladies&#8217; Home Journal&#160;and the more masculineEsquire, a precursor in many ways of the men&#8217;s magazines that emerged with and around&#160;Playboy&#160;in the early 1950s.We invite papers that explore the interaction between mass-market magazines and modernist literary and aesthetic preoccupations over the time span of eighty years, from the emergence of industrialized journalism and the &#8220;fully-fledged magazine&#8221; (Scholes) to the rise of television as a most influential medium, and the coincident decline of the magazine as &#8220;the major form of repeated cultural experience for people in the United States&#8221; (Ohmann, 29). Taking into account transatlantic influences &#8211; such as&#160;Vu&#8217;s influence on Henry Luce&#8217;s decision to remodel&#160;Life&#160;after 1936, or connections between Cond&#233; Nast and Lucien Vogel, creator of the French edition of&#160;Vogue&#160;&#8211; we would also like to encourage transatlantic perspectives involving French magazines.Main themesSubjects might include, but are not limited to, the following:overlaps, parallels &#38; points of intersection between &#8220;little&#8221;, &#8220;middlebrow&#8221;, &#38; &#8220;pulp&#8221; magazines;the influence of magazine work on literary work (form, content, imagination);the role of magazines in fostering creative nonfiction stories;the role of aesthetic, financial, &#38; commercial preoccupations in shaping editorial policies &#38; contents;the links, interactions, &#38; networks among writers, publishers, editors, &#38; agents;the construction of &#8220;complex literary milieus&#8221; (Ohmann);the identification of style as a promotional tool;the link with the phenomenon of celebrity &#38; the rise of popular celebrity culture;the role of interviews and portraits in fashioning authorial personae;the role of magazines in creating literary institutionalization &#38; professionalization;transatlantic exchanges &#38; influences with French magazines (Vu,Voil&#224;,&#160;Match, or&#160;Marie Claire).Submission guidelinesAbstracts should be no more than 450 words.When submitting your abstract, please add, in the same window, a short biobibliography.&#160;Deadline for submission of abstracts:&#160;August 25, 2017Submit your abstract : https://bigmagazines.sciencesconf.org/user/submitOrganizationC&#233;cile Cottenet (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Anne Reynes-Delobel (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Frank Conesa (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Advisory boardH&#233;l&#232;ne Aji (Universit&#233; Paris Nanterre)C&#233;cile Cottenet (Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)Sean Latham (University of Tulsa)C&#233;line Mansanti (Universit&#233; de Picardie Jules Verne)Mark Morrisson (Penn State University)Beno&#238;t Tadi&#233; (Universit&#233; Rennes 2)Anne Reynes-Delobel (Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;)Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)&#160;BibliographyBrooker, Peter and Andrew Thacker, ed.,&#160;The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist magazines. 2. 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