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Author | : David Carroll |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691223033 |
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This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts of art figure in the elaboration of fascist ideology--and in the presentation of fascism as an art of the political. Carroll is concerned with the internal relations of fascism and literature--how literary fascists conceived of politics as a technique for fashioning a unified people and transforming the disparate elements of society into an organic, totalized work of art. He explores the logic of such aestheticizing, as well as the assumptions about art, literature, and culture at the basis of both the aesthetics and politics of French literary fascists. His book reveals how not only classical humanism but also modern aesthetics that defend the autonomy and integrity of literature became models for xenophobic forms of nationalism and extreme "cultural" forms of anti-Semitism. A cogent analysis of the ideological function of literature and culture in fascism, this work helps us see the ramifications of thinking of literature or art as the truth or essence of politics.
Author | : Robert O. Paxton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fascism |
ISBN | : 0195111893 |
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In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation.
Author | : Paul Mazgaj |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874139495 |
Download Imagining Fascism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The role and influence of intellectuals is one of the flashpoints in the recurring debate on the nature and dimensions of French fascism. At the forefront of this debate are a group of emerging writers, collectively known as the Young Right. Though thoroughly schooled in the reactionary nationalism of Charles Maurras' Action francaise, whose orbit they entered in the early 1930s, they were soon seduced by the mobilizing force of neighboring fascist movements and regimes. Led by two precocious literary talents, Robert Brasillach and Thierry Maulnier, the Young Right set themselves to rejuvenating French nationalism and winning a place for France in an emerging new Europe. Their project - an attempt to graft lessons from foreign sources onto a native language of French generational and cultural politics - was one of several efforts to create a distinctive French fascism.
Author | : Margaret Atack |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Counterculture in literature |
ISBN | : 9780719026409 |
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Author | : Zeev Sternhell |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691006291 |
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"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during the 1980s, this explosive work asserts that fascism was an important part of the mainstream of European history, not just a temporary development in Germany and Italy but a significant aspect of French culture as well. Neither right nor left, fascism united antibourgeois, antiliberal nationalism, and revolutionary syndicalist thought, each of which joined in reflecting the political culture inherited from eighteenth-century France. From the first, Sternhell's argument generated strong feelings among people who wished to forget the Vichy years, and his themes drew enormous public attention in 1994, as Paul Touvier was condemned for crimes against humanity and a new biography probed President Mitterand's Vichy connections. The author's new preface speaks to the debates of 1994 and reinforces the necessity of acknowledging the past, as President Chirac has recently done on France's behalf.
Author | : Alice Yaeger Kaplan |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816614946 |
Download Reproductions of Banality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to blame the Nazi Occupation for the presence of fascists within the country. Yet the memory of fascism within their ranks still haunts French intellectuals, and questions about a French version of fascist ideology have returned to the political forefr.
Author | : Denis Hollier |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1997-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674264495 |
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They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Denis Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment. Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, André Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre are the figures Hollier considers, writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text. They appear here uneasily balancing the influences of the philosopher and the man of action. These studies convey the paradoxical heroism of writers fighting for a world that would extend no rights or privileges to writers, writing for a world in which literature would become a reprehensible frivolity. If the nineteenth century was that of the consecration of the writer, this was the time for their sacrificial death, and Hollier captures the comical pathos of these writers pursuing the ideal of "engagement" through an exercise in dispossession. His work identifies, as none has before, the master plot for literature that was crafted in the 1940s, a plot in which we are still very much entangled.
Author | : John T. Marcus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258515348 |
Download French Socialism in the Crisis Years, 1933-1936 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Melanie Hawthorne |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874518146 |
Download Gender and Fascism in Modern France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France.
Author | : Alice Kaplan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226424149 |
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Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.