The Making of an Avant-Garde

Tel Quel

Niilo Kauppi

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110139525
• eBook ISBN: 9783110883763
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter I: The logic of succession
• 1. Seuil and modifications in the publisher’s space
• 1.1. The new literary collections
• 2. The formation of the first group and the founding of Tel Quel
• 2.1. The formation of the first group
• 2.2. The founding of the review
• 2.3. Internal struggles
• 2.4. Social trajectories of the first group's members
• 2.5. Tact and condescendence: The case of Philippe Sollers
• 3. The second group: Social characteristics and trajectories
• 3.1. Electors and elect
• 3.2. Habitus and symbolic domination
• 4. The master’s gallery: Between Existentialism and Surrealism
• 4.1. The New Novel
• 4.2. Poetry
• 4.3. The accursed writers
• 4.4. The book series
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter II: Tel Quel: Between literature, science and politics
• 1. Structural modifications of the university and new forums of diffusion
• 1.1. Critique and Tel Quel as privileged legitimation circuit
• 1.2. Tel Quel as an intermediary in the space of intellectual reviews
• 1.3. The new forums of diffusion: From Sartre to the human sciences
• 2. Tel Quel and the university: Positional spaces and major academic collaborators
• 2.1. Formation and expansion of the field of semiology
• 2.2. Roland Barthes as an intermediary between Tel Quel and the École Pratique des Hautes Études
• 2.3. Transposition of competence and social integration: Julia Kristeva’s case
• 2.4. Jacques Lacan as the “French Freud”
• 2.5. Grammatology and deconstruction: Academism and radicalism in Jacques Derrida’s position
• 2.6. Tel Quel and Michel Foucault
• 2.7. Institutions of reproduction and diffusion and legitimation instances
• 3. Tel Quel and the Communist Party
• 3.1. The cultural policy of the Communist Party
• 3.2. La Nouvelle Critique, left wing of the Communist camp
• 3.3. Tel Quel and May ’68
• 4. Conclusions
• Chapter III: The logic of the intellectual strategies
• 1. The system of constraints
• 1.1. Contraints relative to the public and the diffusers
• 1.2. The tensions of multipositionality
• 1.3. Écriture and social revolution
• 1.4. Contesting established rights
• 1.5. Critique of the arrière-garde
• 2. The literary variant of symbolic domination
• 2.1. Context of production of the discourse
• 2.2. Presuppositions of textual analysis of Sollersian discourse
• 2.2. Meaning and structural censorship
• 3. The “-logy” effect: The “scientific” productions
• 3.1. The strategy of “neither - nor”
• 3.2. The “new reason”
• 3.3. Semanalysis: Between linguistics and psychoanalysis
• 3.4. Linguistic stances
• 3.5. Numismatics and materiology
• 4. Symbolic struggles at the avant-garde pole
• 4.1. Proximity of Tel Quel to Change
• 4.2. Relations between avant-garde reviews
• 4.3. Tel Quel among the avant-garde reviews
• 4.4. The epigones: The dominated-dominated circuit
• 4.5. Expansion of Tel Quel into the field of visual arts
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter IV: Structural modifications and symbolic domination
• 1. Problems of legitimation as an avant-garde
• 1.1. “Reintroducing” Surrealism
• 1.2. Assembling new followers and critique of the university
• 1.3. Means of dépassement
• 2. Formulation of a new sociodicy and reaction of the Communist Party
• 2.1. “Irregularity” and reclassification
• 3. Conclusions
• Chapter V: General conclusions
• Epilogue
• Tel Quel outside France
• Appendix 1. Authors published in Tel Quel from 1960 to 1982 (members of the board excluded)
• Appendix 2. Articles published in Tel Quel from 1960 to 1982 in chronological order
• Notes
• References
• Index