French Literary Fascism

French Literary Fascism
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780691223032
ISBN-13 : 0691223033
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis French Literary Fascism by : David Carroll

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.

French Peasant Fascism

French Peasant Fascism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780195111897
ISBN-13 : 0195111893
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis French Peasant Fascism by : Robert O. Paxton

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.

The Collaborator

The Collaborator
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0226424146
ISBN-13 : 9780226424149
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collaborator by : Alice Kaplan

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.

Literature and the French Resistance

Literature and the French Resistance
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0719026407
ISBN-13 : 9780719026409
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature and the French Resistance by : Margaret Atack

French Lessons

French Lessons
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780226566481
ISBN-13 : 022656648X
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis French Lessons by : Alice Kaplan

“[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself.” —The Washington Post Book World Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French “r,” attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and style of the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine. At the same time, she was repulsed by his anti-Semitism. At Yale in the late 70s, during the heyday of deconstruction she chose to transgress its apolitical purity and work on a subject “that made history impossible to ignore”: French fascist intellectuals. Kaplan’s discussion of the “de Man affair” —the discovery that her brilliant and charismatic Yale professor had written compromising articles for the pro-Nazi Belgian press—and her personal account of the paradoxes of deconstruction are among the most compelling available on this subject. French Lessons belongs in the company of Sartre’s Words and the memoirs of Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Eva Hoffman. No book so engrossingly conveys both the excitement of learning and the moral dilemmas of the intellectual life.

Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France

Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 0804732876
ISBN-13 : 9780804732871
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Nationalism, Anti-semitism, and Fascism in France by : Michel Winock

In a wide-ranging set of essays on political, literary, and cultural figures, this book traces the history of nationalism in France in all its permutations?its myths, obsessions, possibilities, and dangers.

Avant-Garde Fascism

Avant-Garde Fascism
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 0822340348
ISBN-13 : 9780822340348
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Avant-Garde Fascism by : Mark Antliff

An investigation of the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France between 1909 and 1939.

Post-fascist Fantasies

Post-fascist Fantasies
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0822319632
ISBN-13 : 9780822319634
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Post-fascist Fantasies by : Julia Hell

Employing an approach informed by Slavoj Zizek's work on the Communist's sublime body and by British psychoanalytic feminism's concern with feminine subjectivity, Hell first examines the antifascist works by exiled authors and authors tied to the resistance movement. She then strives to understand the role of Christa Wolf, the GDR's most prominent author, in the GDR's effort to reconstruct symbolic power after the Nazi period.

The French Right Between the Wars

The French Right Between the Wars
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781782382416
ISBN-13 : 1782382410
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The French Right Between the Wars by : Samuel Kalman

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society and culture during the 1920s and 1930s. This collection of essays shifts the focus away from long-standing controversies in order to examine various elements of the French right, from writers to politicians, social workers to street fighters, in their broader social, cultural, and political contexts. It offers a wide-ranging reassessment of the structures, mentalities, and significance of various conservative and extremist organizations, deepening our understanding of French and European history in a troubled yet fascinating era.

A History of Fascism, 1914–1945

A History of Fascism, 1914–1945
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 636
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ISBN-10 : 0299148742
ISBN-13 : 9780299148744
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by : Stanley G. Payne

“A History of Fascism is an invaluable sourcebook, offering a rare combination of detailed information and thoughtful analysis. It is a masterpiece of comparative history, for the comparisons enhance our understanding of each part of the whole. The term ‘fascist,’ used so freely these days as a pejorative epithet that has nearly lost its meaning, is precisely defined, carefully applied and skillfully explained. The analysis effectively restores the dimension of evil.”—Susan Zuccotti, The Nation “A magisterial, wholly accessible, engaging study. . . . Payne defines fascism as a form of ultranationalism espousing a myth of national rebirth and marked by extreme elitism, mobilization of the masses, exaltation of hierarchy and subordination, oppression of women and an embrace of violence and war as virtues.”—Publishers Weekly