Framed narratives : Diderot's genealogy of the beholder / Jay Caplan ; afterword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplan, Jay.

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 19.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reader-response criticism.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric.

Dialogue.

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Religieuse.

Diderot, Denis.

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Framed Narratives was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The work of French philosophe Denis Diderot (1713-1784) has inspired conflicting reactions in those who encounter him. Diderot has been admired and despised; he has moved his readers and irritated them - often at the same time. His work continually shifts between mutually exclusive positions - neither of which provides an entirely satisfactory answer to the qu

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Aesthetics of Sacrifice; Chapter Two: Genealogy of the Beholder; Chapter Three: Moving Pictures (La Religieuse-I); Chapter Four: Misfits (La Religieuse-II); Chapter Five: A Novel World (Bougainville as Supplement); Chapter Six: Conclusions; Afterword; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 119-128.

ISBN:

0-8166-8222-4

OCLC:

476092887