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The novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) and the essays collected in Japoneries d’automne (1889) written by French travel author Pierre Loti offer a paradoxical view of Japan during the Meiji period. In both travel writings, the author is torn between aesthetic japonism – which spread all over Europe at the end of the 19th century – and exotic expectations, i.e. the picturesque fascination of the Other. The latter, however, remains unsatisfied throughout his stay. In both writings, Pierre Loti provides an insight into Japan that entirely reflects the spirit of his time. Thereby, he contributes to an image of Japan, which will long remain vivid in the Occident. Contemporaries perceive Loti’s representation of Japan as a realistic testimony, tinged with both sensory impressions and his highly ambiguous feelings towards the distant country, which in the end remained incomprehensible to him.
The nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of the latter.
Der lyrische Triebtäter André Pieyre de Mandiargues Gewalt und Erotik im Gedichtband L’Âge de craie
(2017)
The surrealists are not the only influence on the literary efforts of André Pieyre de Mandiargues – but it’s this influence that makes his oeuvre capable for an analysis based on Freudian theories. This way of an analysis is even more appropriate knowing that two of Mandiargues’ main and favourite themes – the eroticism and the violence – coincide with the Freudian life and destruction drive. Analysing the two poems Les filles des gobes and Les ruines de l’amour from the volume of poems L’Âge de craie, it’s these two paradigms that are clearly recognizable: Mandiargues’ symbolism reveals the duality of the domination by desires.
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The study uses the category of disgust in order to analyse the representation of the human body and the corpse in one of the most influential medieval treatises, the De Miseria Condicionis Humanae (1195) written by Pope Innocent III, and its little known old French adaptation Double lay de fragilité humaine (1383) by Eustache Deschamps. Analysing how both use disgust as an aesthetic means, which appeals to emotions and turns off reason, helps to point out the pedagogical and moral function of the texts. The comparison between them shows that Deschamps stays faithful to his Latin model, but that he nevertheless has to make certain modifications in order to adapt the prose text into a lyrical form. Furthermore, this approach clearly elucidates what differences there are between the conceptions of the human body and death in the two texts, revealing at the same time divergent theological points of view.
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Trotz der offiziell erlangten Unabhängigkeit der ehemaligen französischen Kolonien im subsaharischen Afrika prägen verallgemeinernde und abwertende Sichtweisen auf dortige Bevölkerungsgruppen den französischsprachigen Diskurs. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrages sollen Texte von Victor Hugo, Georges Remi und der Partei En Marche!, welche während und nach der Kolonialisierung entstanden sind, anhand der Theorien von Michel Foucault, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe und Edward Said analysiert werden. Hierbei werden bis dato vorherrschende binäre Denkstrukturen offengelegt, die „den/die Europäer*in“ und „den/die Afrikaner*in" in kontrastierende Kategorien einteilen und somit (neo)koloniale Machtgefüge implizit und explizit befürworten.
Der zweite Teil des Beitrags beschäftigt sich mit der Aufgabe, den subtilen Einfluss des Kolonialismus auf Sichtweisen der Schüler*innen im Rahmen einer Unterrichtsreihe aufzuarbeiten und mögliche Vorurteile und Stereotypen über die subsaharisch-afrikanische Bevölkerung zu überwinden. Die Dimensionen des interkulturellen Lernens nach Michael Byram, die nach wie vor fester Bestandteil europäischer Curricula sind, sollen mit denen des Postkolonialismus vereint werden, um den zunehmenden Spaltungen in multiethnischen Gesellschaften aktiv und jugendgerecht entgegenzuwirken.
French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class’ misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola’s novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author Édouard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola’s naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola’s constructions.