The line of research "Literatures, minor and major arts" is meant to explore the place of different kinds of literature within a wider artistic field, with a particular stress on disciplinary crossings, regardless of time periods or limits. The aim is to focus on the specific relationships between various works of art, with a particular emphasis on comparisons between literature and the arts. To tackle this vast artistic field, we’ll rely - among others - on Cultural Studies. Indeed, such an approach allows a better understanding of political and social phenomena through the conflicts that are internal to the artistic fields in question. Nonetheless, that will not be our only approach: we will also study texts and works with literary tools. Indeed, we should not forget the first aim of Cultural Studies: not to consider mass or pop culture from a purely statistical or reception point of view in order to keep poetical study for ‘high-brow’ culture works only, as though they were the only ones to deserve it. Thus, along with major collective trends, we will be able to address individual works through their differences and specificities.