Visions of war in France : fiction, art, ideology
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書誌事項
Visions of war in France : fiction, art, ideology
Louisiana State University Press, c1999
- cloth : alk. paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is an examination of literary depictions of war and war-time in France from the early 19th century - the Napoleonic era - through to World War II and its aftermath. It explores, in a historical, cultural and ideological context, the development of nationalism and evolving views on warfare, how war has been treated by authors and artists in France since 1800, and the distinctive ways of grappling with the physical, psychological and philosophical issues in a war-novel genre. In the first chapters, Brosman provides a historical framework by analyzing attitudes toward armed conflict in the 18th and early 19th centuries in connection with the question of nationalism; by identifying the iconography and symbolism of war in post-Revolutionary France, especially visual art; and by scrutinizing the techniques of French war fiction, and its principles of composition and arrangement. The remaining chapters investigate fictional portrayals of Napoleonic battles, particularly Waterloo, the Franco-Prussian War, and the two world wars as well as French colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
Among the many writers discussed are Stendhal, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Maupassant, Proust, Sartre, Cocteau and Duras. Brosman seeks to illustrate, through her choice of literary examples, how the transformation in attitudes toward war is paralleled by evolving fictional techniques and forms, including erosion of standards of language. Tracing this development, which is connected to both modernism and postmodernism, the text offers elements of a poetics of war writing and seeks to contribute to an appreciation of the purposes and effects of war literature and images in French culture during the last two centuries.
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