French Literary Fascism : : Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture / / 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1995
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (309 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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