French Literary Fascism
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French Literary Fascism
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Author : David Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12
French Literary Fascism written by David Carroll and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Reproductions Of Banality
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Author : Alice Yaeger Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1986
Reproductions Of Banality written by Alice Yaeger Kaplan and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
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.
Literature And The French Resistance
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Author : Margaret Atack
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1989
Literature And The French Resistance written by Margaret Atack and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Counterculture in literature categories.
Imagining Fascism
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Author : Paul Mazgaj
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2007
Imagining Fascism written by Paul Mazgaj and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
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.
French Socialism In The Crisis Years 1933 1936
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Author : John T. Marcus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10
French Socialism In The Crisis Years 1933 1936 written by John T. Marcus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with categories.
Otto Abetz And His Paris Acolytes
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Author : Martin Mauthner
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Otto Abetz And His Paris Acolytes written by Martin Mauthner and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with History categories.
Before Hitler comes to power, Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilising young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but, after 1933, succumbs to the Nazi sirens. Ribbentrop recruits him as his expert on France, tasking him with soothing the nervous French, as Hitler turns Germany into a war machine. Abetz builds up a network of opinion-moulding French men and women who admire the Nazis and detest the Bolsheviks, and encourages them to use their pens to highlight Hitler's triumphs. In 1939, France expels Abetz as a Nazi agent. The following year he returns in triumph with the German army as Hitler appoints him as his ambassador in Paris. During the war, Abetz (apart from 'securing' works of art and playing a role in the deportation of Jews) manoeuvres three of his French publicist friends -- Jean Luchaire, Fernand de Brinon, Drieu la Rochelle into key positions, from where they can laud Nazi achievements and denigrate the Resistance. A prime question the author addresses is why these writers, and two others, Jules Romains and Bertrand de Jouvenel -- all of whom had close Jewish family connections -- supported the Nazi ideology. At the war's end, Drieu commits suicide, while Luchaire and Brinon are tried and executed as traitors. Abetz, charged with war crimes, pleads that he has saved France from being 'Polonised', but a French court finds him guilty and he is imprisoned. Released early, he dies in a mysterious car crash -- a saboteur being suspected of having tampered with the steering.
France In The Era Of Fascism
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Author : Brian Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
France In The Era Of Fascism written by Brian Jenkins and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This volume brings together the leading critics of the 'immunity thesis' to fascism in France in the 1930s - Robert Paxton, Zeev Sternhell and Robert Soucy - who have refined and updated their positions in these essays.
Absent Without Leave
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Author : Denis Hollier
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1997-11-15
Absent Without Leave written by Denis Hollier and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Gender And Fascism In Modern France
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Author : Melanie Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1997
Gender And Fascism In Modern France written by Melanie Hawthorne and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Discovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France.
The Search For Modern Tragedy
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Author : Mary Ann Frese Witt
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Search For Modern Tragedy written by Mary Ann Frese Witt and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
The attempt to apply an aesthetic or literary approach to fascism remains controversial. In The Search for Modern Tragedy, Mary Ann Frese Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. In Italy and France, she maintains, an ideological aesthetic of "Mediterranean" fascism developed to a large extent independently of German Nazism. Witt's study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy and tragedies by key authors, including Luigi Pirandello, Henry de Montherlant, and Jean Anouilh. She looks at these tragedies in the context of their reception under fascism in Italy and in Vichy France. Fascism, in the minds of many of its supporters, was an aesthetic or spiritual movement, although its aesthetic and political elements were often intertwined. The Search for Modern Tragedy is not concerned primarily with drama written as a means of conveying fascist propaganda. Rather, Witt is concerned with the influence of aesthetic fascism on the theory and practice of modern tragedy.