Mediated Senses: Translating Sensations for Media

Abstract

This second issue on the theme Le Sens et les sens/Sense and the Senses gathers selected papers presented at the 20th-/21st- Century French and Francophone Studies’ colloquium in April 2017 at Indiana University, Bloomington. The conference proposed to interrogate literature and other arts as the privileged sites of the connection between sensation and interpretation, i.e. the multiple articulations and the many tensions and frictions between the meaningful apprehension of the world and it’s fictitious, but real, mediation. In other words, the aesthetic relation between senses and sense.