Evil A History In Modern French Literature And Thought

Author : Damian Catani
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441185075

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Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought by Damian Catani Pdf

In this original, interdisciplinary approach to evil in French literature, Damian Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in modern literature. Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani covers the restoration and the Second Empire before interpreting how Catholic stereotypes of the 'evil feminine' and new scientific theories impacted the work of Lautréamont and Zola. Moving into the twentieth century, evil is then explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and politics through readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault. By seamlessly bringing together aesthetic, philosophical, historical and ideological concerns to read key French writers from the 18th to the 21st century, this study argues why a broader treatment of literary evils is vital to understanding our contemporary moral and political climate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004409262

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Perspectives on Evil by Anonim Pdf

This interdisciplinary study takes a real-life look at evil deeds and evil nature, from the Global Financial Crisis to the Rwanda Genocide and beyond. The authors share their personal and poignant views on evil.

Author : Martin Löschnigg,Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110391527

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The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film by Martin Löschnigg,Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz Pdf

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

Author : Patrick Baert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745685410

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The Existentialist Moment by Patrick Baert Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this remarkable transformation? The Existentialist Moment retraces Sartres career and provides a compelling new explanation of his meteoric rise to fame. Baert takes the reader back to the confusing and traumatic period of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath and shows how the unique political and intellectual landscape in France at this time helped to propel Sartre and existentialist philosophy to the fore. The book also explores why, from the early 1960s onwards, in France and elsewhere, the interest in Sartre and existentialism eventually waned. The Existentialist Moment ends with a bold new theory for the study of intellectuals and a provocative challenge to the widespread belief that the public intellectual is a species now on the brink of extinction.

Author : Roger Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192843319

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The Beauty of Baudelaire by Roger Pearson Pdf

A substantial study of the works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) that provides fresh and detailed readings of his poetry in verse and prose.

Author : Joseph Crawford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472509956

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Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism by Joseph Crawford Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, fourinter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology ofthe French Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre ofpolitical conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction, known atthe time as 'terrorist novel writing'. All four bodies of writing drew heavilyupon one another, in order to articulate their shared sense of the radical andmonstrous otherness of the extremes of human evil, a sense which was quite newto the eighteenth century, but has remained central to the ways in which wehave thought and written about evil and violence ever since.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137549112

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The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.

Author : Susan Neiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691168500

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Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman Pdf

Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Author : Jonas Ross Kjærgård
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429878114

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Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature by Jonas Ross Kjærgård Pdf

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed to them would be in the interest of their happiness. The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen equipped the French with a list of inalienable rights and if society would respect those rights, the happiness of all would materialize. This volume explores the authors of fictional literature who contributed alongside pamphleteers, politicians, and philosophers to the establishment of this new political arena, filled with sometimes vague, yet insisting notions of happiness and rights. The shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty and the corollary transition from subjects to citizens culminated in the summer of 1789 but it was preceded by an immense piece of imaginative work.

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804725594

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Modern Chinese Literary Thought by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

This volume presents a broad range of writings on modern Chinese literature. Of the fifty-five essays included, forty-seven are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition, the editor has provided an extensive general introduction and shorter introductions to the five parts of the book, historical background, a synthesis of current scholarship on modern views of Chinese literature, and an original thesis on the complex formation of Chinese literary modernity. The collection reflects both the mainstream Marxist interpretation of the literary values of modern China and the marginalized views proscribed, at one time or another, by the leftist canon. It offers a full spectrum of modern Chinese perceptions of fundamental literary issues.

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455644

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Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought by Christopher John Murray Pdf

In this wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought, leading scholars offer an authoritative multi-disciplinary analysis of one of the most distinctive and influential traditions in modern thought. Unlike any other existing work, this important work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more.

Author : Damian Catani
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144680

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline by Damian Catani Pdf

The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline’s groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline’s subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.

Author : Louis Raymond Véricour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101072917915

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Modern French Literature by Louis Raymond Véricour Pdf

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141965970

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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Pdf

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.

Author : Douglas W. Alden,Richard A. Brooks
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815622058

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A Critical Bibliography of French Literature by Douglas W. Alden,Richard A. Brooks Pdf