The Déjà-vu and the Authentic

Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jean-Jacques Chardin

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Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.

The correlated concepts of the déjà-vu and the authentic suggest that all cultural productions are per se palimpsests whose construction is the result of such…

The correlated concepts of the déjà-vu and the authentic suggest that all cultural productions are per se palimpsests whose construction is the result of such processes as reprise, recycling, and recuperating. Reprise is approached as various forms of citation, reference and intertextuality; recycling is defined as commodification and intellectual impoverishment; while recuperating implies the ideological process that makes reappropriation possible.

By covering a wide spectrum of research interests, from literature to music, art and the cinema, the seventeen contributions in English or in French explore the political and ethical implications inherent in the creation of culture.

Jean-Jacques Chardin is Professor of English Studies at the University of Strasbourg, Stirling Maxwell Fellow (2010–2013) at the University of Glasgow, and Director of the EA 2325 SEARCH Research Group, University of Strasbourg. He has specialised in the field of English Renaissance literature and has published a series of books and articles on Shakespeare and seventeenth century emblems.

CAPET Antoine, AUER Christian, TOURNU Christophe, TOUDIC Daniel, BOUSQUET David, Lara DELAGE-TORIEL, VERNADAKIS Emmanuel, RYCHTER Ewa, DESSET Fabien, PENOT Frédérique, Christian Gutleben, VAN THIENEN Jean-Christophe, Jean-Jacques Chardin, HEBERLE Jean-Philippe, BELLOÏ Livio, DUQUERROY Marion, HEYDARI Mélanie, GRUNDY Paul, DI COSTANZO Thierry, FUNK Wolfgang