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The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment / John C. O'Neal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neal, John C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- France.
- Intellectual life.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- Philosophy, French--18th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Ambiguity.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- The subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater
- Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit
- Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot
- Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles
- Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul
- Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity
- Gender confusion
- Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry
- Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874130645
- 0874130646
- 1611490243
- 9781611490244
- OCLC:
- 652743716
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