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Tesi etd-05152019-154339


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
SPACCIANTE, VALERIA
Indirizzo email
spacciantevaleria@gmail.com
URN
etd-05152019-154339
Titolo
La falsa coscienza del moderno. Tentazioni nichiliste nel retour au classicisme
Dipartimento
FILOLOGIA, LETTERATURA E LINGUISTICA
Corso di studi
FILOLOGIA E STORIA DELL'ANTICHITA'
Relatori
relatore Prof. Grilli, Alessandro
controrelatore Prof.ssa Rossi Linguanti, Elena
Parole chiave
  • André Gide
  • Classical reception
  • French modernism
  • Freudian repression
  • Greek myth
  • Greek tragedy
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Jean Giraudoux. Interwar-period literature
  • Literary Theory
  • Modern theatre
  • Nihilism
  • Parody
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Retour au classicisme
Data inizio appello
08/07/2019
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
08/07/2089
Riassunto
I aim to point out the inner tensions of the French literature of the inter-war period. Despite the most widely held critical positions, tending to read French modernism as a humanistic movement, the plays of the '20s and '30s display nihilistic patterns which are repressed by their authors. Yet, they still come to the light through the irony which pervades these texts. This dissertation therefore offers a psychoanalitical reading of André Gide's, Jean Cocteau's and Jean Giraudoux's "classical" plays in order to highlight their nihilist elements and their struggle against the pervasive humanistic discourse. In this view, humanism is thus a compromise formation between nihilism and the need for social order in the aftermath of the war. Consequently, literature - and the classical tradition in particular - is held as a powerful way to restore and reshape social values in accordance to contemporary needs.
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