Text in French. This French-language volume contains contributions from an international conference held at the University of Aarhus. Weight is laid on the question of the aesthetic and the poetologic, and with a focus on the 'specific' in literary forms, the work can be seen as a challenge that concerns not only theory-formation but also reading and interpretation. The contents range from historic-systematic considerations over the concept of the work's theoretic legitimacy, to concrete readings of motives in precise works. French text.