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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, thanks for this very relevant comment! Sadly, we don't talk enough about video games at #bookhistory conferences, though I would argue the making and playing of video games could be one of our objects of study...

Speech act set in TripAdvisor conflictive exchanges. A contrastive pragmatic analysis between Spanish and Italian

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to #ESPRit2026 being closer by in Brussels on 9-11 September at the beautiful Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR).

The CFP will be circulated by the end of the month!

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're closing #ESPRit2025 by celebrating the 2024 ESPRit Prize: *The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023) ed. by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck & Birgit van Puymbroeck @edinburghup.bsky.social

The committee was unanimous in their decision, calling it a “genuine tour de force”

*The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023), edited by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck, and Birgit van Puymbroeck, @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

María Isabel Hernández Toribio has been studying TripAdvisor since 2016 with her Italian colleague Laura Mariottini.

In 2020, they tackled advertising on Twitter.

In her keynote, she referenced a figure from the #OpenAccess article below.

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hdl.handle.net/11573/1689697

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

I missed how museums and advertising got roped into this analysis, but María Isabel Hernández Toribio is comparing their rhetorical strategies in social media posts with those of "journalism".

Her first table compared different types of declarations and her second, types of questions.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

The conferences I attend are always mainly dedicated to historical forms of media, so it's always nice to hear about contemporary media.

María Isabel Hernández Toribio applies discourse analysis to the social media posts of major Spanish newspapers and their literary supplements.

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Troisième congrès Médias 19 : Le journal dans tous ses états (Montpellier, 18-20 mai 2026)

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Speaking of Médias 19, the third conference will take place 18-20 May 2026 in Montpellier.

CFP deadline: 1 October 2025

Tell all your #PeriodicalStudies French-language friends!

Guillaume Pinson @pinsonm19.bsky.social · Jul 8

Lancement de l'appel à communications pour le 3e congrès Médias 19, que j'organise avec Marie-Ève Thérenty, et qui aura lieu à Montpellier du 18 au 20 mai, en prélude du festival Plumes de presse. À vos claviers ! 👇
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interesting experience now at #ESPRit2025 which reminds me of the first conference of Médias 19 in 2015 (@pinsonm19.bsky.social!): a (keynote) presentation in Spanish with slides in English (as opposed to French at Médias 19).

Let's see how much I can grasp...

Romanian transitional alphabet - Wikipedia

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Roxana Patraș's case study is on Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907)'s feuilleton *Duduca Mamuca* or *Micuţa* published in 1862 in the newspaper *Lumina din Moldova* and in 1864 in *Aghiuță*.

It is not considered a novel because it was only republished in serial form.

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Micuța - Wikisource

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Eventually, all political newspapers included feuilletons, explains Roxana Patraș.

The "serious" part was printed in the Romanian transitional alphabet (a mixture of Latin and Cyrillic characters).

Feuilletons, being light reading, were printed in the Latin alphabet.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Roxana Patraș explains that most Romanian feuilletons were never finished because they were written by politicians, who were then too busy with politics.

They were in competition with translations of French feuilletons.

There are 2 templates for feuilletons: in dailies & in magazines.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now to Romania with Roxana Patraș (and Antonio Patraș in spirit)!

The first Romanian novel to be published in feuilleton is *Pustnicul* by Graf Valberg (pseudonym) in *Propăşirea* in 1844.

This was the first moment of synchronization of Romanian literature (with French literature?)

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

To conclude, @clementdessy.bsky.social claims that these pairings in tables of contents were deliberate acts on the part of the magazines to highlight the affinities:

- in the first case, the mediation of Armenian literature, and;

- in the second case, the decadent artistic movement.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

All the names above except Pater's appear for instance on the table of contents of year 10, volume 2 of *La Société Nouvelle* (1894) transcribed on Wikisource.

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward - Wikipedia

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

María Dolores Narbona Carrión is recovering the American feminist writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911).

She has found assemblage theory very fruitful to use Phelps's non-fiction periodical publications to provide insight into her literary works.

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Georges Khnopff ou la reconversion cosmopolite de l’homme de lettres

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

@clementdessy.bsky.social's 2nd case study centres on decadence (@superhh.bsky.social!) and homosexual desire in *La Société Nouvelle* (1884-1896)

The names he tracks:

- 🇧🇪Georges Khnopff, translated
* 🇬🇧Walter Pater
* 🇬🇧Oscar Wilde

- 🇧🇪Georges Eekhoud

- 🇬🇧Edward Carpenter

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👇 #OpenAccess

Georges Khnopff Réserve précieuse de l'Université libre de Bruxelles Lorsqu’elle évoque le peintre Fernand Khnopff, la critique omet souvent de citer son prénom. Elle entretient ainsi une confusio...

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Arshag Chobanian - Wikipedia

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

@clementdessy.bsky.social zooms into the table of contents of the *Mercure de France* (1890-1965) that often pairs the names of Pierre Quillard, a symbolist writer, and Archag Tchobanian, an Armenian emigré to Paris, realist writer, and translator.

The men had met in Constantinople.

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Écrire en petit, jouer en mineur. Scènes et formes marginales à la Belle Époque

Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

My 2nd panel of the day starts w/ @clementdessy.bsky.social who's working on literary translations in French-language little magazines (1880-1914)

He uncovers forgotten translators, or famous writers unknown as translators, such as Alfred Jarry

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👇 #OpenAccess ed. @macharlier.bsky.social

Penser la vie littéraire, théâtrale et médiatique de la Belle Époque par le prisme des pôles majeur/mineur, centre/marge, s’avère particulièrement fécond pour comprendre les postures auctoriales, les ...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Stanislava Barać's article with Zorana Simić appeared last year in the Journal of European #PeriodicalStudies, an #OpenAccess journal. It focuses on the Popular Front in Yugoslavia and one of its feminist magazines.

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<em>Žena danas</em> (1936–40; 1943–44; 1945–53) and Mitra Mitrović: The Policies of (Ghost) Editorship, Feminism, and Antifascism

This article offers an innovative contribution to previous and current reconstructions of the dialectics of the national and women’s questions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. More precisely, it aims to ...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Popular Front was an attempt to federate communists, anarcho-syndicalists, social democrats, antifascists, etc.

The limits are porous, but the Popular Front feminist network also emerges clearly from the reuse of the same images from magazine to magazine.

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