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The French Mind
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Mithridate
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Genèse, structure et destin d’Adolphe
La littérature romanesque française a eu, de tous temps, les honneurs de la critique. Les grandes œuvres qui font sa richesse ont suscité et suscitent encore des études aussi diverses que nombreuses. Pourtant, quand elles sont autre chose qu’un survol rapide, quand elles atteignent à une certaine ampleur ou à une certaine profondeur, ces études s’attachent à quelque chose qui n’est jamais une œuvre isolée, considérée dans son individualité. Elles s’intéressent à un ensemble plus vaste — un genre, les romans d’un auteur, par exemple ; ou bien, à l’inverse, elles ne portent que sur un aspect particulier d’une seule œuvre. Ces manières de faire conduisent souv...
The french mind
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Adolphe
Adolphe enjoys all the advantages of a noble birth and an intellectual ability, yet he is haunted by the meaninglessness of life. Thus, he merely seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in the language of love, fallsfor her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of an illicit love that is destructive to his public career. Unable to commit himself fully to Ellenore, and yet unwilling to face the pain he would cause by leaving her, Adolphe finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation.Written in a clear and thoughtful style, Adolphe (1816) reveals Constant's own experiences in love, while reflecting his anxieties for the possibility of any authentic commitment to someone other than ourselves, whether emotional or political, in a disenchanted world.
Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic
The articles assembled in Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic describe and analyze the ever-widening attempts in the early years of the Third Republic (1870-1914) to mobilize literary phenomena for the purposes of political and social warfare. Literature became the preferred site in which the human implications of the fiercest and most widespread of these culture wars, the battles over national identity waged between proponents of secular and religious education, were articulated, dramatized and appraised. In studies of Erckmann-Chatrian and Vallès, Rachilde and Colette, the Goncourt brothers and Marcelle Tinayre, La Fontaine and Corneille, the song-writer Jules Jouy an...
For Fear of the Fire
Meltzer uses the story of Joan of Arc to show how postmodern critique concealt nostalgia for transcendence and an imagined unity of mind and body that can only be challenged by uncoupling the feminine from mystery.
