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Title: Find More Like ThisFahrenheit 451 Below.
Authors: Hollier, Denis
Source: Raritan; Summer96, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p93, 10p
Document Type: Literary Criticism
Publication Information: Rutgers University
Subject Terms: BOOKS
BRADBURY, Ray
CARROLL, David
CRITICISM
FAHRENHEIT 451 (Book)
FRENCH Literary Fascism (Book)
Abstract: Analyzes Ray Bradbury's book `Fahrenheit 451 Below and `French Literary Fascism,' by David Carroll. Bradbury's focus on Nazi cultural politics; Carroll's description of fascism as a crusade for preserving literature's purity; Carroll's study of nine French writers.
Document Information: Essay last updated: 19960924
Lexile: 1210
Full Text Word Count: 3527
ISSN: 02751607
Accession Number: 9609241544
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French Literary Fascism, by David Carroll, Princeton University Press.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury encapsulates Nazi cultural politics in a single image: book burnings. This powerful simplification has strong pedagogical advantages: it might even encourage us to equate the homey gesture of dozing over a book, slippers on, next to a reassuring fireplace, to a deed of underground resistance. Fascism, however, was not primarily defined by its politics of the book; literature was not summoned to the bench at the Nuremberg trials. Worse, moreover, the political exploitation of the German auto-da-fe of the 1930s by the Popular Front bears responsibility for an insidious Manichean delusion hiding the fact that fascism too is (or should one optimistically say, was) a cultural phenomenon. There...
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