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When talking about heroes I’ve often been asked if I could please drop the problematic term ‘hero’ in favor of the term ‘role model’. I cannot, since the word role model is part of the problem: a sterile term that social scientists invented in 1957, which simply doesn’t work the way the word heroes does: to inspire, to challenge, to light fires for (and under) people of whatever age who need to be reminded that there is more to their lives than they are told to be resigned to. When attempting to use the word hero in a BBC discussion I was attacked by an interlocutor who justified her refusal to use the old-fashioned word ‘hero’ because “Hitler and Stalin were heroes.”

Nouvelle manière de penser l'art, en rupture avec le réalisme du XIXème siècle, le modernisme est le produit d'un monde caractérisé par des bouleversements socio-économiques, politiques, philosophiques et technologiques. Anne Fauré nous présente ici la littérature moderniste, littérature de crise et de mise en crise.

"Wide Sargasso Sea" ne peut se lire qu’en référence – et en comparaison – à "Jane Eyre", sur lequel il oblige à porter un autre regard, un autre point de vue. Mais Rhys, nous dit l’auteur de cet article, ne se contente pas de présenter simplement le revers de "Jane Eyre" et nous montre qu’il existe toujours l’ « ailleurs de l’ailleurs ».