Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France : from nuances to impertinence

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nye, Edward, Author.

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--18th century--France.

Criticism.

Linguistics--History--18th century--France.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 250 p.).

Other Title:

Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France From Nuances to Impertinence

Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linguistic theories in the 18th century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as aesthetic theories. This work considers a wide range of authors from this perspective.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE HISTORY OF 'NUANCES':

IMITATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1.1 The 'querelle du coloris'

1.2 Le Blon's invention of colour engraving

1.3 Castel's colour harpsichord and colour

weaving

1.4 Girard and synonymy

.5 Condillac's Art d'ecrire

1.6 Bievre's 'calembours'

1.7 Diderot's article 'Beau'

1.8 D'Alembert, Court de Gebelin, and

encyclopaedias

1.9 The theory of genres

Conclusion

2. PRECIOSITYAND ITS DISCONTENTS

2.1 Marivaux and two kinds of 'clarte'

2.2 Houdar de La Motte's idea of poetry and

prose

2.3 Criticism of preciosity

2.4 Fenelon's compromise

2.5 Girard's compromise: Synonymes francois

2.6 Dumarsais's compromise: Traite des tropes

2.7 Olivet's compromise: Prosodie

3. CONDILLAC'S IDEA OF 'NATURE'

3.1 Semiosis

3.2 Empathy in the origin of language

3.3 From 'nature' to 'second nature' in language

3.4 Diderot and composition in painting

3.5 Empathy and gesture in the 'drame

bourgeois'

3.6 Rousseau and the figurative origins of

language

3.7 Buffon's universal style

4. LINGUISTIC AND POETIC SOUND SYMBOLISM

4.1 De Brosses's theory of phonomimetism

4.2 Court de Gebelin's theory of phonomimetism

4.3 Sound symbolism in poetry

4.4 Diderot's hieroglyph

4.5 The perfect language

4.6 De Piis and sound symbolismin poetry

4.7 'Etymologie' as a theory of poetry

5. THE DISSOLUTION OF LANGUAGE

5.1 The linguistic philosophy of 'idologie'

5.2 Universal language schemes: Locke, Delormel

and Maimieux

5.3 L'Epee's sign language -

5.4 Sicard's sign language

5.5 Condillac's algebraic language

5.6 The literary aesthetics of 'impertinence'

5.7 Mercier's literary aesthetics

5.8 M ieier and necrophilia

5.9 Mercier's Tableau de Paris

CONCLUSION

Appendix

La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie, Act III, scene vi, extract

La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie en prose, Act III, scene v,

extract

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780191673788 (ebook) :