By Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had an unlimited impression on modern French writers—among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the Thirties in the course of the modern-day, his writings were shaping the overseas literary consciousness.
The area of Literature, first released in France in 1955, is critical to the improvement of Blanchot's idea. In it he displays on literature and the original call for it makes upon our awareness. therefore he explores the method of examining in addition to the character of creative creativity, all of the whereas contemplating the relation of the literary paintings to time, to heritage, and to dying. This publication is composed now not a lot within the software of a severe strategy or the demonstration of a concept of literature as in a patiently planned meditation upon the literary event, educated so much particularly via reports of Mallarmé, Kafka, Rilke, and Hölderlin. Blanchot's discussions of these writers are probably the greatest in any language.
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The barrier between Scripture and literature, upon which Scripture depends in order to function, is difficult to maintain. One might say that the two institutions are linked forever in struggle, since the divine (Scripture) must always differentiate itself from the secular (literature), while the secular always strives for exactly the opposite: literature in a sense “wants” to be taken as seriously as the Bible, and thereby constantly challenges the distinction that places Scripture in a separate category.
Nowhere is this analysis more prevalent than in the history of republican pedagogy, such as this passage from a 1975 article by Claude Désirat and Tristan Hordé on the revolutionary-era attack on Jesuit rhetorical pedagogy by the founders of the republican educational enterprise, and the subsequent refusal by members of the Third Republic to carry it further: [L]a Troisième République, en imposant la réconciliation nationale et l’union sacrée, estompe les traits trop marqués de ces modèles [de la Première République], quitte à accepter une image négative de la première révolution et à redorer parfois les blasons de l’ancien régime.
I do not intend to analyze Jules Ferry’s reforms and the struggles over educational policy that led up to them, a field well covered by historians. Rather, I propose to examine literary literature versus scripture / 21 threads in the fabric of Third Republic ideology, such as the foundation of a secular canon through the pedagogical selection, editing, and treatment of French literary texts. I begin with the birth of the science of literary pedagogy in works by Ferry’s cadre of academics such as Ferdinand Buisson’s monumental Dictionnaire de pédagogie et d’instruction primaire (Dictionary of Pedagogy and Primary Education) published between 1882 and 1887, and proceed with an examination of several primary school textbooks created for the purpose of implementing the new republican pedagogy, ranging from relatively forgotten literary anthologies to more famous works such as G.
