Texte et contre-texte pour la période pré-moderne

What is the COUNTER-text?

It truly is the question that the late Middle Ages specialists try to answer in this process which offers a larger vision of the stakes of premodern literary creation. Whether interrogating trickery, cunning or inversion, thinking about the norm and its countermand, or questioning parody and subversion, the text and its counter-text appear as two contradictory but not necessarily opposite sides of literary creation. Whether theatrical, poetic, fictional, or moral, 14th to 16th-century works carry the same pleasure of measure and excessiveness, of the norm and its contrary, of front and back, head or tails. 

Because in these games of double, COUNTER-text is not COUNTER-productive – it is the other side of a literature and a language that is thought to give birth to French literature.