Review
of Literatures of the European Union
Alfredo
Luzi (Università di Macerata)
Idéologie
et utopie dans le recueil Fisarmonica rossa
 -
Abstract
›Title
in English: Ideology ans Utopia in the
Fisarmonica rossa collected poems
Christine
Détrez (ENS-LSH) and Anne Simon (CNRS)
L’idéologie
du familialisme chez les romancières
contemporaines
- Abstract
›Title
in English: The ideology of familialism
among the contemporary novelists
Ronald
Strickland (Illinois State University Chicago)
Nothing
that is Human is Alien to Me: Neoliberal Ideology
and the End of Bildung
- Abstract
Evy
Varsamopoulou (Anglia Polytechnic University)
Remainders
of Fascism and Communism: Ethical and Political
Dilemmas in Narratives of Diaspora
- Abstract
David
Décaire (Université de Moncton)
La
guerre des genres. Le roman contre l’antisémitisme
chez Céline
(Mort à crédit et Bagatelles
pour un massacre)
- Abstract
›Title
in English: The war of genres. The novel
against anti-Semitism in Céline (Mort
à credit and Bagatelles pour
un massacre)
Olivier
Odaert (Université catholique de Louvain)
Saint-Exupéry
et le Fascisme: Pour une poétique de
l’idéologie -
Abstract
›Title
in English: Saint-Exupéry and Fascism:
Towards a poetic of ideology
Sabine
van Wesemael (Université d’Amsterdam)
L'ère
du vide
- Abstract
›Title
in English: The era of emptiness
Georges
Fréris (Université de Thessalonique)
Altérité
et identité nationales: utopie et réalité.
Le cas d’Histoire
d’un prisonnier de Stratis Doukas
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Abstract
›Title in English: National
otherness and identity: utopia and reality.
The case of Histoire d’un prisonnier,
written by Stratis Doukas
Alfredo
Luzi (Università di Macerata)
Idéologie
et utopie dans le recueil Fisarmonica
rossa
›Title
in English: Ideology ans Utopia in the
Fisarmonica rossa collected poems
Abstract
In 1945, in a particular intense historical
and cultural moment for the whole world, the
poet Franco Matacotta published his collection
L'accordéon rouge. Started as a young
soldier under the burning Sardinian sun, accompanying
moments of desolation, turmoil, emotion, hate
and love, this collection of poems is a milestone
in his works. These poems testify his new
approach to lines – more violent, expressive,
imaginative – while echoing his return
to hope, to confidence in the future, thus
leading to a “freedom utopia”
which emerges both on the aesthetic and the
ideological level.
Keywords: Matacotta, utopia,
freedom, neo-realism, Italian poetry
Christine
Détrez (ENS-LSH) et Anne Simon (CNRS)
L’idéologie
du familialisme chez les romancières
contemporaines
›Title
in English: The ideology of familialism
among the contemporary novelists
Abstract
Being both a discourse about society and a
discourse on society, the contemporary novel
presents indeed some ambivalences. Contemporary
novelists regularly monopolize their chronicles
through an hyper-sexualized discourse, but
this apparent freedom is not free of paradoxes.
Behind the most audacious descriptions, a
moralizing and traditional discourse seems
to appear. The perpetration of an ideology
based on familialism and balanced on the triad
sex/love/coupe, the first element of which
is justified by the other two, is still present
among several contemporary novelists. Some
of them, although, explicitly free themselves
of these values.
Keywords: Couple, family,
familialism, woman, contemporary novel
Ronald
Strickland (Illinois State University Chicago)
Nothing
that is Human is Alien to Me: Neoliberal Ideology
and the End of Bildung
Abstract
The genre of Bildungsroman and the teaching
of modern literature in the university have
traditionally underwritten a mode of subject-as-individual-agent
that is now undermined by globalization and
the ideology of neoliberalism. This essay
examines some fictional representations of
Bildung in crisis in works by Jean-Paul Sartre,
Georges Perec and Michel Houellebecq, and
argues for the viability of adapting the process
of Bildung to meet the challenge of globalization
and the neoliberal restructuring of higher
education.
Keywords: Bildungsroman,
Ideology, Houllebecq, Sartre, Perec
Evy
Varsamopoulou (Anglia Polytechnic University)
Remainders
of Fascism and Communism: Ethical and Political
Dilemmas in Narratives of Diaspora
Abstract
This essay compares effects and responses
to fascism and communism in Thomas Bernhard’s
Auslöschung: Ein Zerfall and Milan Kundera’s
L’Ignorance. Kundera examines the need
to return, while Bernhard explores what it
means to allow the expelled a return. With
the collapse of Communism, return became ostensibly
possible but could turn out to be undesirable.
Bernhard exposes the roots of fascist ideology
and insists on a symbolic return of the expelled
Jews as a mode of recognition/restitution.
Fascism and Communism will be examined as
forces of interruption of human identity,
understood as temporal continuity. Totalitarian
ideologies deny this continuity, while the
literature inscribes one into an otherwise
inaccessible “community”.
Keywords: Diaspora, return,
Ideology, Fascism, Communism
David
Décaire (Université de Moncton)
La
guerre des genres. Le roman contre l’antisémitisme
chez Céline
(Mort à crédit et
Bagatelles pour un massacre)
›Title
in English: The war of genres. The novel
against anti-Semitism in Céline (Mort
à credit and Bagatelles pour
un massacre)
Abstract
One of the greatest novelists of the 20th
Century, Louis-Ferdinand Céline became,
in the pamphlets he published around the II
World War, a propagandist of antisemitism.
In order to better understand his ideological
drift, one has to analize jointly the different
genres employed by Céline and try to
elaborate what could be defined as a poetics
of genre. One could also consider the genres
of legend and ballet as intermediate terms
sharing certain features with both the novel
and the pamphlet. The study of these intermediary
genres, in Mort à crédit and
Bagatelles pour un massacre, allows one to
show how Céline's writing, far from
being static, proves instead to be constantly
animated by a series of movements.
Keywords: genre, Céline,
novel, antisemitism, pamphlet
Olivier
Odaert (Université catholique de Louvain)
Saint-Exupéry
et le Fascisme: Pour une poétique de
l’idéologie
›Title
in English: Saint-Exupéry and Fascism:
Towards a poetic of ideology
Abstract
Contrary to the usual process with fascistic
authors, which consists in spotting the forewarning
signs of their conversion, this article questions
the course of a writer who, notwithstanding
his predisposition to fascism, turned to a
reconciling humanism. A deeper study of Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry's texts reveals that,
whereas a shallow interpretation of the themes
and normative apparatus of his work could
easily lead to the conclusion of a repressed
fascism of the author, a reading of the aesthetic
features of his works leads one to riqualify
his position and understand the poetic foundations
of Saint-Exupéry's ideological decisions,
his orientation corresponding to the global
shape of his imaginary universe.
Keywords: Saint-Exupéry,
Ideology, Fascism, Poetics, Imagery
Sabine
van Wesemael (Université d’Amsterdam)
L'ère
du vide
›Title
in English: The era of emptiness
Abstract
European civilisation is seriously ill because
it rests on ideological myths with no substance.
Many contemporary European writers treat with
the same disdain all ideology and those who
propagate them. The refusal of transcendence
is also a real tendency of contemporary literature.
Houellebecq cultivates in his novels a sort
of annihilation. Happiness turns out to be
impossible and the attempts to fill the emptiness
are unsuccessful.
Keywords: Houellebecq, emptiness,
annihilation, novel, refusal
Georges
Fréris (Université de Thessalonique)
Altérité
et identité nationales: utopie et réalité.
Le cas d’Histoire
d’un prisonnier de Stratis Doukas
›Title in English: National
otherness and identity: utopia and reality.
The case of Histoire d’un prisonnier,
written by Stratis Doukas
Abstract
On the basis of the classic definition that
the personal identity is the imaginary picture
we get from the image of the Other and consequently
that the concept of the nation is a «realistic»
notion based on an assemblage of personal
identities, the article aims to see how the
national otherness and identity face each
other within the same person, in periods of
peace and war. The short Greek novel L’histoire
d’un prisonnier written by Stratis Doukas,
which refers to the Asia Minor War (1919-22)
and in particular within the conscience of
a Greek, will serve as an example for the
argumentation. The whole shows that the couple,
identity-otherness emerges from the imaginary
picture created by social groups on the basis
of real events, of events that end up by becoming
myths within the frame of the imaginative
faculty.
Keywords: Nation, Identity,
Alterity, Stereotypes, War
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