| Summary: | This issue of Études britanniques contemporaines emanates from the contributions to a workshop of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC) at the 2019 conference of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur. The conference revolved around the issue of ‘exception(s)’ and it gave contributors the opportunity to explore a notion that has rarely aroused critical interest. Whether the said exceptionality is that of works that stand out from the rest of a writer’s career, or whether it is that of literary excentrics, it brings us to probe the norms regulating our literary taxonomies, just as it invites us to reflect on the lasting fascination the unclassifiable exerts on readers. The issue brings together articles bearing on contemporary fiction but also on modernism’ take on the subject; it gives us keys to understand our complex relation to literary laws and norms and to the exception(s) that subvert and undo them. This issue also includes two monographic sections. One, devoted to articles on Virginia Woolf, builds on the long-standing collaboration of the journal with the Société d’Études Woolfiennes. The other section brings together articles turning to E.M. Forster’s Howards End and its film adaptation by James Ivory (1992).
|
|---|
