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This article examines how the relationship between fictionality and referentiality has evolved since the beginning of the 1990s, from a double perspective which combines two disciplines that rarely cross paths: namely, historiography and the theory of literary genres. The choice to accept certain narrative techniques as inherently factual is, indeed, not neutral, since the discursive distinction between “truth” and “lies” or “fabrications” is often conceptualized within the larger theoretical frame of literary genres. I will demonstrate that this distinction no longer tends to be conceptualized following a binary model, but that it is rather thought of as “analogical”. The analogical model allows a better understanding of the hybridity of interpretative practices resulting from the frequent use of social media platforms, whose discourses frequently escape current generic classifications.
Keywords: Fictionnalité, référentialité, théorie des genres littéraires, historiographie, médias sociaux, Fictionality, referentiality, theory of literary genres, historiography, social media
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This article reflects on the history of medicine as an academic discipline. It endeavours to focus on the debates that erupted in France from the second half of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The first point surveys the main theoretical trends of medical history up to the epistemological turn in the middle of the nineteenth-century, which saw the opposition of the proponents of a “philological” approach to the promoters of a “heroic” medical history. The second point presents the debates that developed in France from the 1950s surrounding the legitimacy of a medical history by medical doctors; this questioning was set off by the Annales Revolution, as well as the historical trend around Jacques Léonard. The third point reflects on the future of the study and the research of the history of medicine in France, highlighting the need for cooperation between practitioners and humanities and social science specialists, thanks to their respective competences.