This collection of essays reflects the reaffirmed interest within literary criticism in perspectives on character as an evident cornerstone of fiction (and indeed of other writing) but one that for a number of years had fallen oddly out of regard, especially within some areas of literary theory. Bringing together articles on works drawn variously from contemporary Anglophone literary and popular fiction as well as media productions (film, TV series, digital games), the collection exemplifies this renewed “reassessment of character in literary studies” (Anderson et al. 1) and the diverse approaches and readings it enables.

The Persistence of Character / Sous la direction de Ivan CALLUS, Gloria LAURI-LUCENTE, Armelle PAREY et Isabelle ROBLIN

Ivan CALLUS, Gloria LAURI-LUCENTE, Armelle PAREY et Isabelle ROBLIN / Introduction

Marcus HARTNER / Fictional Characters in Literary Theory — A Short History

James CORBY
Character Adrift (on the Sea of Language): Robinson Crusoe, Foe, Elizabeth Costello, and the Shipwreck of Realism

Christine LORRE
The female character as reader in Alice Munro’s stories: “at the end of it all what has been accomplished?”

Virginie DOUGLAS
Character in Young Adult fiction: The example of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995-2000) and The Book of Dust (2017- )

Isabelle ROBLIN
From Humans to Androids to Holograms: the Persistence of Character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager

Rim KHALED
The Power of the Voice: From Voice-Over to Character?

Renata E. NTELIA
Love Is in the AI of the Beholder / Artificial Intelligence and Characters of Love

Grand entretien : Archéologie d'un parcours / Sous la direction de Sophie VALLAS

Pascale ANTOLIN et Sophie VALLAS / Sylvie Mathé : un entre-deux transatlantique

Article hors thème

Adam WILSON / The Ideological Construction of the English Language in the French Agrégation

A Book in the Life / Sous la direction de Sophie VALLAS

Marc CHÉNETIER / William Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Jean-Jacques LECERCLE / Jane Austen, Emma

Recensions

Cécile COTTENET
Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction. How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, “Literature Now” series, 2023. 313 p. ISBN: ‎978-0-231-19295-8.

Bernard CROS
Jean Viviès, Rugby Station ! Histoire, langages, cultures du rugby. Interstices : 2023. 195 p. ISBN : 978-2-9567569-7-2.

Andrew IVES
Nathalie Lévy, Alexis Chommeloux, Nathalie Champroux, Stéphane Porion, Selma Josso, Audrey Damiens (eds), The Anglo-American Model of Neoliberalism of the 1980s: Construction, Development and Dissemination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 335 p. ISBN: 978-3-031-12073-2. 126.

Robert SAYRE
Scott Slovic, Voyager pour penser : Engagement, retraite et responsabilité écocritique, Traduction et édition par Françoise Besson. Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2023. 416 p. ISBN : 978-2-8107-1220-5.

Helen SOUTHWORTH
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain : William et Jenny Bradley passeurs culturels transatlantiques. Lyon : ENS éditions, Institut d’Histoire du Livre, 2023. 290 p. ISBN : 979-10-362-0628-3.

Clémentine THOLAS
Morgane Jourdren, Chaplin’s America: Between Dream and Illusion. Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2023. 134 p. ISBN : 978-2753587090.