A conference co-organised by the Popular Cultures Research Network (University of Leeds) and the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures Populaires et les Cultures Médiatiques (University of Limoges).
Plotting – the skilful structuring of event into story - has generally been considered ‘the element of narrative that least sets off and designs high art' (Peter Brooks). Popular fictions, on the other hand, are acknowledged to owe their success to the craft of story-telling, of compelling the reader to turn the pages. This conference brings together an international group of scholars to explore the importance of story in the enduring appeal of popular fictions, and in the contested relationship between ‘high' and low' culture, in France and across the western world.
Speakers include Claire Gorrara, Marc Lits, Jacques Migozzi
Academic organisers in Leeds : Diana Holmes, David Platten.
(Language medium: French and English)
Reduced rates for postgraduates.