Grands courants d'echanges intellectuels : Georg Brandes et la France, l'Allemagne, l'Angleterre- Main currents of Intellectual Exchanges: Georg Brandes and France, Germany, Great Britain : Actes de l

Le Danois Georg Brandes (1842-1927), considere comme l'un des peres de la litterature comparee, exerca, en tant que critique litteraire, une influence determinante sur son epoque. Il fut egalement un intellectuel engage, defendant la liberte individuelle et le droit des peuples a disposer d'eux-memes, ainsi que la cause de la paix pendant la Premiere guerre mondiale. Les pays qu'il connaissait le mieux, et ou il avait les plus nombreux contacts, etaient la France, l'Allemagne et l'Angleterre. Les relations que Brandes entretenait avec ces pays ont ete au centre de la Deuxieme Conference Internationale Georg Brandes (Nancy, 2008), dont les contributions sont rassemblees dans ce volume. La provenance des auteurs (France, Danemark, Italie, Allemagne, Suede, Grande Bretagne, Etats-Unis, Tchequie...) temoigne de la dimension internationale de l'entreprise. La presence, aux cotes des meilleurs specialistes de Brandes, de representants de disciplines autres que les etudes scandinaves (litterature francaise, allemande, anglaise, philosophie, histoire, etc.) reflete la diversite et la richesse de l'oeuvre brandesienne. The Danish writer Georg Brandes (1842-1927) is regarded as one of the founders of comparative literature. As a literary critic, he was highly influential in his time. He was also a politically engaged intellectual, advocating individual freedom and peoples' right to self-government; he also refused to take sides during the First World War and opposed warfare. The countries he knew best and where he had most friends and correspondents were France, Germany and Britain. Brandes' relationship to those countries was the subject of the Second International Georg Brandes Conference held in Nancy (France) in November 2008. The papers that were delivered there are collected in this book. The authors are from various countries (France, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, USA, Czech Republic...), stressing the international dimension of their research. The presence of the best Brandes' specialists as well as of scholars from various fields other than Scandinavian studies (French, German, English literature, philosophy, history, etc.) shows the diversity and richness in Brandes' work.