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French Literary Fascism

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: French Literary Fascism : Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction. Literature, Culture, Fascism
    PART ONE: THE FATHERS OF FRENCH LITERARY FASCISM
    One. The Use and Abuse of Culture: Maurice Barres and the Ideology of the Collective Subject
    Two. The Beautiful Community: The Fascist Legacy of Charles Péguy
    Three. The Nation as Artwork: Charles Maurras and the Classical Origins of French Literary Fascism
    PART TWO: LITERARY FASCISTS
    Four. Fascism as Aesthetic Experience: Robert Brasillach and the Politics of Literature
    Five. The Fascist Imagined Community: The Myths of Europe and Totalitarian Man in Drieu la Rochelle
    Six. Literary Fascism and the Problem of Gender: The Aesthetics of the Body in Drieu la Rochelle
    Seven. Literary Anti-Semitism: The Poetics of Race in Drumont and Celine
    Eight. The Art of Anti-Semitic Rage: Lucien Rebatet's Aesthetics of Violence
    Nine A Literary Fascism beyond Fascism: Thierry Maulnier and the Ideology of Culture
    Afterword. Literary Fascism and the Case of Paul de Man
    Notes to the Chapters
    Index
  • Contributor: Carroll, David [Author]
  • Published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2022]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (309 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780691223032
  • ISBN: 9780691223032
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  • Keywords: Antisemitism in literature ; Antisemitism France History 20th century ; Fascism and literature France History 20th century ; French literature 20th century History and criticism ; Nationalism and literature France History 20th century ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French ; Action Française (the movement) ; Anderson, Benedict ; Apollonian ; Blanchot, Maurice ; Butler, Judith ; Corneille, Pierre ; Drumont, Edouard ; Etiemble ; Finkielkraut, Alain ; French Revolution ; Freud, Sigmund ; Godard, André ; Hamacher, Werner ; Heidegger, Martin ; Hollier, Denis ; Isorni, Jacques ; Italian fascism ; Jaurès, Jean ; [...]
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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
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