Faire série. Les poètes de métier

Abstract

What happens when a baker, a doctor, a notary or a teacher writes a poem about his job? Nothing more than an amateur text, one more, which will be lost in oblivion. But when this text is published, read in society, recited at a banquet? And when it is added to a corpus of comparable texts? Then perhaps we gain access to the uses of literature. The comparable produces the series, and the comparatist the serious. Which does not prevent one from having fun while reading.

Keywords

• amateurs
• poetry
• working-class literature
• history of literature