La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow

La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow

This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its socia...

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Autor Principal: Lönhardt, Timea
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicado: Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma 2024
Sujets:
ville
civilisation
condition humaine
crise urbaine
crise morale
conservatisme
résistance à la modernité
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:acs_1663 https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.1663 urn:doi:10.4000/caliban.1663 fr https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1663 2024-01-30T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/vph1 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma Presses universitaires du Midi info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2802-2777 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1278-3331 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/acs Lönhardt, Timea ville civilisation condition humaine crise urbaine crise morale conservatisme résistance à la modernité This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its social, political and intellectual aspects. After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. We will then analyze in more detail the Bellovian critique of the urban crisis which is the core of the writer’s "city novel", Dean’s December, and which created a lot of controversy in the highly politicized American letters of the 1980s. We will close this analysis with a discussion of the accusations of "cultural conservatism" that Bellow sustained during the 1970s and 1980s, and we will offer an interpretation of the writer’s resistance to contemporary canons as a modern literary requirement.
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topic ville
civilisation
condition humaine
crise urbaine
crise morale
conservatisme
résistance à la modernité
spellingShingle ville
civilisation
condition humaine
crise urbaine
crise morale
conservatisme
résistance à la modernité
Lönhardt, Timea
La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
description This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its social, political and intellectual aspects. After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. We will then analyze in more detail the Bellovian critique of the urban crisis which is the core of the writer’s "city novel", Dean’s December, and which created a lot of controversy in the highly politicized American letters of the 1980s. We will close this analysis with a discussion of the accusations of "cultural conservatism" that Bellow sustained during the 1970s and 1980s, and we will offer an interpretation of the writer’s resistance to contemporary canons as a modern literary requirement.
author Lönhardt, Timea
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title La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
title_short La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
title_full La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
title_fullStr La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
title_full_unstemmed La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow
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