Entre abjection et noblesse : Trois visions du barbare chez Jünger, Borgès et Frank Herbert
- The barbarian is a construct of the Other which can be distinguished from the "savage" through a certain degree of social organization and from the monstrous through its more realistic-historic outlook. Still, these categories are fuzzy and fantastic fiction – understood in a broad sense – makes new use of the barbarian people motif in a manner which makes the ideological undertones more visible despite an increased freedom from historical references. The " mob" (das Gesindel) getting out of the forests to devastate the civilized order, in 'Auf den Marmorklippen', embodies abjection in its clearest form, a violent return of the dark violent repressed. On the contrary, in the cycle of 'Dune, the Fremens' are 'barbarian' only in the eyes of the corrupt totalitarian elite of the Imperium. Despite their rough way of life, they represent a cultural order much closer to ecological harmony, which constitutes a major theme in Frank Herbert's saga. Borges' perspective, in 'The Story of the Warrior and the Female Prisoner', is not so much ethical/political as it is philosophical : the mutual fascination between the 'civilized' and the 'barbarians' is tantamount to magnetic opposites, border-crossing and meaningful otherness. These three visions of the 'barbarian' can be distinguished not only through their ideological underpinnings, but also through their narrative techniques.
Author: | Michel Viegnes |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473800 |
ISBN: | 978-3-8498-1119-8 |
ISSN: | 0179-3780 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen = Poétique et rhétorique du barbare, Colloquium Helveticum ; 45 |
Publisher: | Aisthesis Verlag |
Place of publication: | Bielefeld |
Editor: | Melanie Rohner, Markus Winkler |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | French |
Date of Publication (online): | 2018/08/30 |
Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Creating Corporation: | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
Release Date: | 2018/08/30 |
GND Keyword: | Jünger, Ernst; Barbar <Motiv>; Auf den Marmorklippen; Borges, Jorge Luis; Herbert, Frank; Dune; Nationalsozialismus <Motiv> |
Volume: | 2016 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 119 |
Last Page: | 133 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 436189836 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur | |
Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Aisthesis Verlag | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 17.00.00 20. Jahrhundert (1914-1945) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 17.00.00 20. Jahrhundert (1914-1945) > 17.04.00 Studien |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Colloquium Helveticum / Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen = Poétique et rhétorique du barbare (Colloquium Helveticum ; 45.2016) |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473677 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |