A Revision of Lansonism: Gustave Lanson’s soft scientificism and the academic perpetuation of literary history

Authors

  • Nabil Araújo de Souza UFMG – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Faculdade de Letras. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras: Estudos Literários. Belo Horizonte, MG – Brasil.

Keywords:

Lansonism, Soft scientificism, Literary History,

Abstract

Against the cliché of “Lansonian positivism” fed by Roland Barthes, this text defends the thesis that it was, instead, the “soft scientificism” of Gustave Lanson his decisive contribution to the academic perpetuation of literary history in the twentieth century.

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