/DITL/ DICTIONNAIRE INTERNATIONAL des TERMES LITTÉRAIRES

DICTIONARY of  INTERNATIONAL TERMS in LITERARY CRITICISM

A cooperative project initiated by the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) / Coopérative de recherche fondée par l’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (AILC)

Founder / Fondateur (1960-1988) : Robert Escarpit † (U. de Bordeaux 3)

General editor / Directeur scientifique (1986- ) : Jean-Marie Grassin (U. de Limoges)

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Prepared by an association of comparative literature research centers in the world (in search of new fundings. Please help: suggest a program to which the DITL could apply, organize a sub-project, prepare a seminar).

Réalisé par un collectif de centres de recherche comparatistes dans le monde (précédemment ‛Programme PluriFormations «Théorie et Terminologie Littéraires»’ financé par le ministère français de la recherche, antérieurement par le CNRS)

The terminological watch is carried by Jean-Marie Grassin in the EHIC research centre at the Université de Limoges (EA «Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles, dir. : Bertrand Westphal). The objets of the DITL are to : / Le DITL a pour objet de :

1) Survey the terms actually used in international criticism (through a lexicographical watch; the constitution of a thesaurus) / Recenser les termes effectivement utilisés dans la critique internationale (veille lexicographique, élaboration d’un thesaurus) 

             A vocable (word, idiom or expression) is considered * a) a term, then * b) a literary term, then * c) an international literary term when

* 1- it has been actually recorded a number of times in the DITL thesaurus through extensive lexicographical surveys on important international critical documents (such as the proceedings of the ICLA, or the FILLM, widely circulated literary journals – the PMLA, or the RLC Revue de Littérature Comparée –, recognized manuals of literature, etc., to the exception of other dictionaries of literary terms);

* 2- with an acceptation which is specific to literary studies, no matter whether the term belongs to literature itself, or comes from other epistemological horizons such as psychoanalysis, political science, economy, history, sociology, philosophy, etc.;

* 3- and it has been correlated to a number of other vocables granted the same status of a literary term (see extracts from the DITL thesaurus on this site).

             There are about 13 000 lemmata in the thesaurus corresponding to almost 9 500 correlated terms; about 3 500 articles are completed or in progress (stats. in June, 2009) 

2) Clarify such terms (through venues, committees, seminars, ...) / Clarifier ces termes (symposiums annuels, colloques, séminaires, tables-rondes, groupes de travail, comités thématiques ou linguistiques);

3) Define such terms (in a reference dictionary, specific publications) / Définir ces termes (dictionnaire, outils de référence, documents). Articles and documents are in English OR in French.

The reference languages are : Arabic, Chinese, Danish or Swedish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Vietnamese (Turkish to be added)

☞ Articles Site under reconstruction by Joseph Fahey. Not all articles are displayed here; some only in part. If characters do not appear correctly go to the «View» menu in the browser and change encoding to Unicode. There is temporarily no difference being made between the reviewed articles, the articles in progress, and just outlines of articles. / Site en cours de restauration par Joseph Fahey. Tous les articles ni toutes les rubriques n’apparaissent pas. Si des caractères bizarres s’affichent, changer le codage dans le menu «Affichage» du navigateur. Le site provisoire ne fait pas la difference entre les articles approuvés, les articles en cours de rédaction et les squelettes de futurs articles.

☞ Articles in progress / Articles en discussion (access to the base of articles momentarily limited; see also above the link to the «Articles» salvaged from the old AUF site)

☞ Search / Recherche (in reconstruction) 

☞ Thesaurus / Corrélats

☞ Families of terms / Nomenclatures

☞ Peer-reviewed articles (in English) on the CLCWeb (Comparative Literature and Culture, Purdue U. Editors: Jean-Marie Grassin, U. de Limoges / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, National Sun Yat-sen U. / Ana Clara Birrento, U. de Évora)

Events / Calendrier

            ☞ 7-11 sept. 2009, Séminaire en résidence «Lire contre l’auteur / Oppositional reading», Carqueiranne, Var (Ouvert au public, contact : Sophie Rabau, U Paris 3). Résumés et Appel à contribution / Call for contribution

DITL Library / Bibliothèque du DITL

         ☞ Lexique de l’esthétique de Roland Barthes par Norbert B. Barbe (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua) 

            ☞ Mapa poético actual de México / Mapping to-day's Mexican poetry / Cartographie de la poésie mexicaine contemporaine (Adán Echeverria ; Armando Pacheco, compiladores)

The Research cooperative / Coopérative de recherche

         ☞ The DITL list / Liste de diffusion.

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            Contribute to the DITL / Collaborer au DITL. Propose a new article, comment or complement an article, suggest a bibliographical reference for a term, provide an equivalent term in survey languages, etc.). Send a message with the name of the term as the subject to grassin@unilim.fr.

History and productions / Histoire et réalisations du DITL

            ☞ Articles in print

            ☞ Fifty years of literary criticism lexicography (ICLA anniversary report, Venice, 2005)

              ☞ 2009 DITL seminar (ACLA, Harvard U.)

            ☞ 2009 DITL conferencia española (CSIC, Madrid, Trujillo)

Recently updated articles / Mises à jour

Partners / Partenaires

Fabula (La recherche en littérature, ed. : Alexandre Gefen ; DITL web correspondent : Joseph Fahey)

SFLGC (Société Française de Littérature Générale et Comparée) Centres de recherche comparatistes associés jusqu’en 2008 en Programme PluriFormations (PPF «Théorie et Terminologie Littéraires», Ministère français de la Recherche) pour l’avancement du DITL.

Clcweb (Comparative Literature and Culture, ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek)

DETLI (Diccionario Español de Términos Literarios Internacionales, dir.: Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo)

EHIC («Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles», dir. Bertrand Westphal, Université de Limoges)

☞ Useful sites / Sites utiles

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