Le mythe méditerranéen dans la fiction américaine de l'entre-deux-guerres
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Abstract EN:
Analyse des causes socio-historiques et culturelles d'un renforcement du mythe mediterraneen dans la fiction americaine de l'entre-deux-guerres (tender is the night de f. Scott fitzgerald; the sun also rises, a farewell to arms et for whom the bell tolls de ernest hemingway). Recherche d'un age d'or a travers le texte et constat monderne de l'echec de tout rituel visant a reintegrer le passe mediterraneen mythique. Perduration du mythe a travers cette meme tentative d'en detruire l'illusion. (* the cabala et the woman of andros de thornton wilder).
Abstract FR:
Analysis of the social, historical and cultural causes of a reinforcement of the mediterranean myth in the us fiction between the world wars (tender is the night by f. Scott fitzgerald, the sun also rises, afarewell to arms and for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway; the cabala and the woman of andros by thronton wilder). Wuest for a golden age through the text and acknowledgement of the failure of the rituals aiming at the recovery of a lost mythical mediterranean past. Perduration of the myth through this very attempt to destroy its illusion.