Literature as a combat sport (continued)

Last year's lecture looked at the tropes of literary warfare from 1820-1870, listing the figures in an ABC (athlete, bravo, condottiere) that remains incomplete, but which had been closed by two figures of reconciliation: that of the warrior's rest and that of the peace of loyal adversaries. It remained to examine all the intermediate figures of this alphabet. The solution proposed for this year's edition is one that Les Antimodernes had already tried out: the list of figures will be followed by a list of the great soldiers of this literary war, who will in turn indirectly shed light on the tropes left unexplored.