Yale French Studies, volume 111; Myth and Modernity
by Edited by Dan Edelstein and Bettina LernerFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2007-06-28
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
Editors' Preface Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner Mythomania and Modernity Part I: From Nation to Republic Bettina Lerner Michelet, Mythologue Leon Sachs Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism Tyler Stovall The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France Part II: Reading Revolution Marie-Helene Huet The Face of Disaster Dan Edelstein The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel Edward Berenson Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand Part III: Mythical Selves Goran Blix Heroic Genesis in theMemorial de Sainte-Helene Natacha Allet Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud's Theater Jean-Marie Apostolides Herge and the Myth of the Superchild Lawrence Kritzman De Gaulle's Memoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation
Table of Contents
| Editors' Preface: Mythomanies | p. 1 |
| Reading Revolution | |
| The Face of Disaster | p. 7 |
| The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel | p. 32 |
| Herge and the Myth of the Superchild | p. 45 |
| From Nation to Republic | |
| Michelet, Mythologue | p. 61 |
| Finding l'Ecole republicaine in the Damnedest of Places: Francois Begaudeau's Entre les murs | p. 73 |
| The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France | p. 89 |
| Myths of Self | |
| Heroic Genesis in the Memorial de Sainte-Helene | p. 107 |
| Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand | p. 129 |
| Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud's Theater | p. 143 |
| A Certain Idea of de Gaulle | p. 157 |
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