scholarly journals The Paris Commune of 1871 in Selected Texts of French Prose Fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bruce Hamilton Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Jules Valles ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
Looking Back

<p>The thesis consists essentially of a consideration of the Paris Commune of 1871 as represented in the following texts: l'Apprentie by Gustave Geffroy; l'Ami de l'Ordre by Jerome and Jean Tharaud; Bas les Coeurs and l'Epaulette by Georges Darien; la Colonne and Philemon vieux de la vieille by Lucien Descaves; les Massacres de Paris by Jean Cassou. With two exceptions (Bas les Coeurs (1889) and les Massacres de Paris (1935)) these works appeared during the opening fifteen years of the twentieth century. In addition to its obvious function of introducing the principal authors discussed, the Introduction provides background information to (and attempts to set the tone for) material examined in the main body of the thesis. Chapters one and Two, devoted to Gustave Geffroy and the Tharaud brothers respectively, consider the commune primarily in terms of its effects upon, and consequences for, individuals and families at the time. Georges Darien's savage denunciation of the bourgeois order - an indictment in which the Paris Commune serves an essential purpose - is considered in chapter Three. The fourth chapter (centred upon la colonne by Lucien Descaves) entails discussion of the commune's repudiation - through the toppling of the vendome column - of warmongering and chauvinism. In Philemon vieux de la vieille, the Commune is seen essentially in terms of its continued significance for former communards looking back, during the early l900's, to the seventy-two days' and the years of exile. Jean Cassou's characterisation of leading participants in the Commune notably Louis Rossel, Louise Michel and Jaroslaw Dombrowski - provides the principal focus for discussion in chapter six. Sources used by both Descaves and Cassou are considered in the relevant chapters. To complement material in Chapters One to Six, appendices relating to three texts (Un Communard by Leon Deffoux; le Mur by Maurice Montegut; la commune by Paul and Victor Margueritte) are included. Throughout the thesis, references are frequently made to, and comparisons drawn with, other writers who have portrayed the commune: notably Emile Zola, Leon Cladel and Jules Valles.</p>

scholarly journals The Paris Commune of 1871 in Selected Texts of French Prose Fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bruce Hamilton Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Jules Valles ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
Looking Back

<p>The thesis consists essentially of a consideration of the Paris Commune of 1871 as represented in the following texts: l'Apprentie by Gustave Geffroy; l'Ami de l'Ordre by Jerome and Jean Tharaud; Bas les Coeurs and l'Epaulette by Georges Darien; la Colonne and Philemon vieux de la vieille by Lucien Descaves; les Massacres de Paris by Jean Cassou. With two exceptions (Bas les Coeurs (1889) and les Massacres de Paris (1935)) these works appeared during the opening fifteen years of the twentieth century. In addition to its obvious function of introducing the principal authors discussed, the Introduction provides background information to (and attempts to set the tone for) material examined in the main body of the thesis. Chapters one and Two, devoted to Gustave Geffroy and the Tharaud brothers respectively, consider the commune primarily in terms of its effects upon, and consequences for, individuals and families at the time. Georges Darien's savage denunciation of the bourgeois order - an indictment in which the Paris Commune serves an essential purpose - is considered in chapter Three. The fourth chapter (centred upon la colonne by Lucien Descaves) entails discussion of the commune's repudiation - through the toppling of the vendome column - of warmongering and chauvinism. In Philemon vieux de la vieille, the Commune is seen essentially in terms of its continued significance for former communards looking back, during the early l900's, to the seventy-two days' and the years of exile. Jean Cassou's characterisation of leading participants in the Commune notably Louis Rossel, Louise Michel and Jaroslaw Dombrowski - provides the principal focus for discussion in chapter six. Sources used by both Descaves and Cassou are considered in the relevant chapters. To complement material in Chapters One to Six, appendices relating to three texts (Un Communard by Leon Deffoux; le Mur by Maurice Montegut; la commune by Paul and Victor Margueritte) are included. Throughout the thesis, references are frequently made to, and comparisons drawn with, other writers who have portrayed the commune: notably Emile Zola, Leon Cladel and Jules Valles.</p>

The Disturbances in the Tutong and Belait Districts of Brunei (1899–1901)

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V.M. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
British Policy

This paper comprises an enquiry into the unrest in the Belait and Tutong districts of Brunei at the turn of the twentieth century. After outlining the course of the disturbances, I shall examine their causes, explain why the recrudescence of violence (after a period of calm) early in 1901 led to a departure in British policy towards the Sultanate, and finally, show how the factors which had given rise to the original disaffection were removed, and lasting peace restored, under a reformed administration introduced at the beginning of 1906. First, however, some background information is necessary.

Looking back at twentieth-century revolutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Hager
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Looking Back

Chris Marker: Interactive Screen and Memory

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Feigelson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Chris Marker ◽  
Unique Relationship ◽  
Looking Back

Chris Marker (1921–2012), the creator of more than eighty films, has become a source of fascination for an entire generation of documentary filmmakers, as well as for the general public. Video and digital technical advancements allowed Marker to further develop his inquiry into image objectivity, and to keep looking back on the history and memory of the twentieth century in a non-linear, reflexive and interactive manner. This chapter examines the continuities and breaks in Marker's uses of technology and his views on history, as well as the specific bond he created with his audience. This unique relationship, which characterises Marker's entire body of work, stems from his concern with interactivity: an idea that operates under different definitions and is manifested in diverse ways within his art. Above all, his main objective concerns the circulation of images that explore cinema's various visual frameworks and how they transcribe history in different ways.

The Politics and Economics of Exile

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-183
Author(s):  
Yasmine Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Political Exile ◽  
Arab Gulf ◽  
Regional Affiliation

The fourth chapter takes the reader beyond the boundaries of the Egyptian nation, to Europe and the Gulf, to explore the space of political and economic dislocation, and brings together the work of Bahaa Taher and Muhammad al-Bisati. It traces the transformation of the exilic novel from the early decades of the twentieth century: while early Arabic narratives showed a movement beyond the borders of Egypt largely for the purposes of education, Taher’s Al-Hubb fi al-manfa (Love in Exile, 1995) and al-Bisati’s Daqq al-tubul (Drumbeat, 2006) depict Europe as the space of political exile, and the Arab Gulf as the site of economic exploitation. In both cases the novels under examination raise questions about the unity of the Egyptian nation-state in an age where political, social, and economic flows extend beyond the boundaries of the nation. The two works engage not only with issues of national identity and belonging, but also with that of regional affiliation. highlighting how the experience of economic and political dislocation serves to illuminate the failure Abdel Nasser’s Arab nationalist dream, and its dissolution under the regimes of Sadat and Mubarak in the following decades.

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