Survie et transmission du monde perdu (Verne, Doyle, Cooper) : roman, vecteurs mémoriels, mythologies modernes
This paper studies a literary commonplace which, over the course of a few decades, became a modern mythology : that of the « lost world », that is the idea, originating from romance (Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864) of a primordial, buried, forgotten world stemming from an alt...
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Narratologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/10537 |
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| Summary: | This paper studies a literary commonplace which, over the course of a few decades, became a modern mythology : that of the « lost world », that is the idea, originating from romance (Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864) of a primordial, buried, forgotten world stemming from an alternative timeline to our historic time. This topic became mythology, transiting though Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong (1933). It is argued that this lost world mythos, far from being the « private fantasy of an exceptional individual » (to quote Cornelius Castoriadis), successfully penetrated the collective imaginary because it laid bare a largely unconscious collective unease about modern comfort and security : are human beings still worthy of their awe-inspiring planet ? |
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| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |