Arnaud Schmitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnaud Schmitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnaud |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Bordeaux |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9570-9562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle
International audience
Captions as Suturing in Hybrid Memoirs
This essay studies the role that captions play in the interaction between photographs and text in hybrid memoirs. Rarely studied, captions can nevertheless be seen as fundamental transitory spaces where visual information and textual information are first confronted with each other before further connections can possibly be established by the main text. But even if captions can sometimes be seen as “secondary text,” offering basic and factual inf…
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour
International audience
The Autobiographical Dimension of Brainy Books
This article purports to explore the autobiographical dimension of a recent publishing phenomenon, brainy books. It’s my contention that these books display a constant dialectic tension between their source (academic research) and their target (non-academic readers), and one way of reconciling both sides consists in resorting to rhetorical strategies in order to make their research more accessible. One of these strategies is openly autobiographic…
Sam Ferguson's Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-century French Writing
Over the last two decades, Philippe Lejeune’s research has established diary-writing as maybe the only form of life-writing immune from panfictionalism. In an oft-quoted article (Lejeune 2007), the French theorist famously expressed his fiction and autofiction fatigue (‘[...] j’ai créé “antifiction” par agacement devant “autofiction”, le mot et la chose’, 3) and set up an insurmountable ontological barrier between autobiographies and diaries: ‘au…
Avatars as the Raison d’Être of Autofiction
As the dust settles in France on the two-decade-long debate on Autofiction, the two opposite sides remain unreconciled: the anti-essentialists and the rationalists haven't reached a theoretical agreement and everyone has gone on to work on different topics and projects. This might be the perfect time to take a step back and reconsider the other side's perspective. As far as I'm concerned, the concept of autofiction remains flawed, mostly, to make…
From Autobiographical Act to Autobiography
As autobiographical practices constantly branch out into new uncharted territories (social media, identity technologies, etc.), autobiography and more generally life writing become less and less centralised, and also less and less literary. This presents scholars working in the field with new theoretical hurdles and one recurring question: this might be autobiographical, but is this an autobiography? Indeed, these ever-growing autobiographical ac…
Rev of. Aux Origines du Journal Personnel
Philippe Lejeune has now been working on the diary, or more precisely on diaries—as more than a peri-literary phenomenon, private journals have been a social and intellectual feature of our daily l
Qu'est-ce que la mythologie grecque? by Claude Calame
Book Review| December 01 2017 Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque? by Claude Calame Calame, Claude, Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque?Paris: Gallimard, 2015. 732 pp. Arnaud Schmitt Arnaud Schmitt University of Bordeaux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 776–778. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4184398 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle
In this study of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, the authors theorize what paratextual information does to one’s reading, especially in autobiography informed literature. Although My Struggle can be read both as memoir and novel, and even as autofiction, Knausgaard is aiming at a higher truth, where the genre label does not undermine the autobiographical quest but supports it
David Shields's Lyrical Essay
International audience
Le chapitre 12 de A Visit from the Goon Squad de Jennifer Egan
Embedded in an open-ended and elliptical diegesis, the twelfth chapter of A Visit from the Goon Squad appears as an aesthetic oddity, even for a very recent novel : it is a series of PowerPoint slides. But in spite of its peculiar—even incongruous for some—visual aspect, this chapter entitled « Great Rock and Roll Pauses by Alison Blake » is simply supposed to be the diary of the daughter of one of the novel’s recurring characters. Indeed, resort…
L'Hyperréalisme de Nicholson Baker, ou comment se refamiliariser avec le quotidien
Cet article se propose d'étudier la dynamique inhérente à deux romans de Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine et A Box of Matches - et la façon dont celle-ci repose sur une dialectique populaire/savant, et plus exactement thématique populaire/récit savant. Après avoir défini la culture savante avant tout comme une culture de communauté, comme cela a été fait par le philosophe Hilary Putnam à travers son concept de « division linguistique du travail » …
Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction
International audience
Le pragmatisme
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Évoquer le Réel ou la charité selon le philosophe Hilary Putnam
Le pragmatisme, courant majeur de la philosophie américaine depuis des décennies, oscille entre deux tendances : la première est incarnée par Richard Rorty et ses épigones selon lesquels la réalité n'a d'existence qu'au travers de son expression linguistique ; la seconde par Hilary Putnam, chantre du " réalisme externe ", principe selon lequel il existe bien un réel au-delà du signifiant. Ces deux possibilités reprennent plus ou moins le credo no…
"Zuckerman’s "Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah
Philip Roth’s American trilogy is indeed a poignant description of seminal periods of contemporary America. Reading these three outstanding novels, one feels entitled to use the fictional data included to improve or modify one’s knowledge of crucial events such as the Vietnam War, McCarthyism or Clinton's peculiar second term. And this is roughly how this work has been depicted in most reviews, as a powerful "mimetic feast." Today, Roth's talent …
Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction
International audience
Avatars as the Raison d’Être of Autofiction
As the dust settles in France on the two-decade-long debate on Autofiction, the two opposite sides remain unreconciled: the anti-essentialists and the rationalists haven't reached a theoretical agreement and everyone has gone on to work on different topics and projects. This might be the perfect time to take a step back and reconsider the other side's perspective. As far as I'm concerned, the concept of autofiction remains flawed, mostly, to make…
David Shields's Lyrical Essay
International audience
From Autobiographical Act to Autobiography
As autobiographical practices constantly branch out into new uncharted territories (social media, identity technologies, etc.), autobiography and more generally life writing become less and less centralised, and also less and less literary. This presents scholars working in the field with new theoretical hurdles and one recurring question: this might be autobiographical, but is this an autobiography? Indeed, these ever-growing autobiographical ac…
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle
In this study of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, the authors theorize what paratextual information does to one’s reading, especially in autobiography informed literature. Although My Struggle can be read both as memoir and novel, and even as autofiction, Knausgaard is aiming at a higher truth, where the genre label does not undermine the autobiographical quest but supports it
"Zuckerman’s "Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah
Philip Roth’s American trilogy is indeed a poignant description of seminal periods of contemporary America. Reading these three outstanding novels, one feels entitled to use the fictional data included to improve or modify one’s knowledge of crucial events such as the Vietnam War, McCarthyism or Clinton's peculiar second term. And this is roughly how this work has been depicted in most reviews, as a powerful "mimetic feast." Today, Roth's talent …
Évoquer le Réel ou la charité selon le philosophe Hilary Putnam
Le pragmatisme, courant majeur de la philosophie américaine depuis des décennies, oscille entre deux tendances : la première est incarnée par Richard Rorty et ses épigones selon lesquels la réalité n'a d'existence qu'au travers de son expression linguistique ; la seconde par Hilary Putnam, chantre du " réalisme externe ", principe selon lequel il existe bien un réel au-delà du signifiant. Ces deux possibilités reprennent plus ou moins le credo no…
Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction
International audience
Le pragmatisme
International audience
L'Hyperréalisme de Nicholson Baker, ou comment se refamiliariser avec le quotidien
Cet article se propose d'étudier la dynamique inhérente à deux romans de Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine et A Box of Matches - et la façon dont celle-ci repose sur une dialectique populaire/savant, et plus exactement thématique populaire/récit savant. Après avoir défini la culture savante avant tout comme une culture de communauté, comme cela a été fait par le philosophe Hilary Putnam à travers son concept de « division linguistique du travail » …
David Shields's Lyrical Essay
International audience
Le chapitre 12 de A Visit from the Goon Squad de Jennifer Egan
Embedded in an open-ended and elliptical diegesis, the twelfth chapter of A Visit from the Goon Squad appears as an aesthetic oddity, even for a very recent novel : it is a series of PowerPoint slides. But in spite of its peculiar—even incongruous for some—visual aspect, this chapter entitled « Great Rock and Roll Pauses by Alison Blake » is simply supposed to be the diary of the daughter of one of the novel’s recurring characters. Indeed, resort…
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle
In this study of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, the authors theorize what paratextual information does to one’s reading, especially in autobiography informed literature. Although My Struggle can be read both as memoir and novel, and even as autofiction, Knausgaard is aiming at a higher truth, where the genre label does not undermine the autobiographical quest but supports it
Qu'est-ce que la mythologie grecque? by Claude Calame
Book Review| December 01 2017 Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque? by Claude Calame Calame, Claude, Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque?Paris: Gallimard, 2015. 732 pp. Arnaud Schmitt Arnaud Schmitt University of Bordeaux Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 776–778. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4184398 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
From Autobiographical Act to Autobiography
As autobiographical practices constantly branch out into new uncharted territories (social media, identity technologies, etc.), autobiography and more generally life writing become less and less centralised, and also less and less literary. This presents scholars working in the field with new theoretical hurdles and one recurring question: this might be autobiographical, but is this an autobiography? Indeed, these ever-growing autobiographical ac…
Rev of. Aux Origines du Journal Personnel
Philippe Lejeune has now been working on the diary, or more precisely on diaries—as more than a peri-literary phenomenon, private journals have been a social and intellectual feature of our daily l
The Autobiographical Dimension of Brainy Books
This article purports to explore the autobiographical dimension of a recent publishing phenomenon, brainy books. It’s my contention that these books display a constant dialectic tension between their source (academic research) and their target (non-academic readers), and one way of reconciling both sides consists in resorting to rhetorical strategies in order to make their research more accessible. One of these strategies is openly autobiographic…
Sam Ferguson's Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-century French Writing
Over the last two decades, Philippe Lejeune’s research has established diary-writing as maybe the only form of life-writing immune from panfictionalism. In an oft-quoted article (Lejeune 2007), the French theorist famously expressed his fiction and autofiction fatigue (‘[...] j’ai créé “antifiction” par agacement devant “autofiction”, le mot et la chose’, 3) and set up an insurmountable ontological barrier between autobiographies and diaries: ‘au…
Avatars as the Raison d’Être of Autofiction
As the dust settles in France on the two-decade-long debate on Autofiction, the two opposite sides remain unreconciled: the anti-essentialists and the rationalists haven't reached a theoretical agreement and everyone has gone on to work on different topics and projects. This might be the perfect time to take a step back and reconsider the other side's perspective. As far as I'm concerned, the concept of autofiction remains flawed, mostly, to make…
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour
International audience
Captions as Suturing in Hybrid Memoirs
This essay studies the role that captions play in the interaction between photographs and text in hybrid memoirs. Rarely studied, captions can nevertheless be seen as fundamental transitory spaces where visual information and textual information are first confronted with each other before further connections can possibly be established by the main text. But even if captions can sometimes be seen as “secondary text,” offering basic and factual inf…
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle
International audience
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