Gifts and exchange economy in the literary groups

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2026n48a1268

Keywords:

Literary gift, Gift economy, Literary groups, Transnational networks

Abstract

Even though the gift is crucial in the peculiar dynamics of literary groups, there has been no thorough research of this phenomenon. This paper, based on a resolutely transnational perspective, proposes a study of the multiple forms of gift characterizing the life of literary groups: gift of speech, manuscripts, books, and dedications. Gifts transform friendships into group identity, creating a constant narrative reflection on itself: the story of the relation as a flux of exchanges. The analysis of literary groups thus shows the profound homology between gift and narrative, both being a synthesis of the heterogeneous (RICOEUR).

Author Biographies

Anthony Glinoer, Universidade de Sherbrook

Anthony Glinoer holds the Canada Research Chair in the History of Publishing and the Sociology of Literature and is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada). His research focuses primarily on the history of publishing (Naissance de l’Éditeur. L’édition à l’âge romantique, co‑authored with Pascal Durand, 2005), on the literary imaginary (La bohème. Une figure de l’imaginaire social, 2018; editor of Imaginaires de la vie littéraire, 2012, and Romans à clés, 2014), and on literary and artistic circles (L’Âge des cénacles, with Vincent Laisney, 2013). Glinoer also created the Socius Project, which offers new editions of classics in the social theory of literature, original or updated bibliographies, and a conceptual glossary developed by an international team (open‑access website: www.ressources-socius.info). He currently directs an international research project on publishers’ archives across the global Francophonie (open‑access website: www.archiveseditoriales.net)

Michel Lacroix, Université du Canadá

Michel Lacroix is Professor of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC, Canada). A specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century French literature, his work focuses on literary correspondence, networks of sociability, and the relationships between literature and journalism. Among his main publications are: Des «amitiés paysannes» à la NRF (edited by Michel Lacroix, based on the correspondence of Henri Pourrat, Michelle Le Normand, and Léo-Paul Desrosiers, 2010); L’invention du retour d’Europe. Réseaux transatlantiques et transferts culturels au début du XXe siècle (2014); contributions to studies on literary communities (La littérature contemporaine en collectif, with Anthony Glinoer, 2020) and on Canadian intellectuals (Dictionnaire des intellectuel·les au Québec, directed with Y. Lamonde, M.-A. Bergeron, and J. Livernois, 2017).

Francine Weiss Ricieri, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)

Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, School of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil.

Maria Lúcia Dias Mendes, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)

Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, School of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil.

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2026-05-31

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Glinoer, A., Lacroix, M., Weiss Ricieri, F., & Dias Mendes, M. L. (2026). Gifts and exchange economy in the literary groups. Texto Poético, 22(48), 09–24. https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2026n48a1268

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