Reading Voltaire's Contes A Semiotics of Philosophical Narration / by Carol Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, Carol L., 1940-

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 223.

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 223

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voltaire, 1694-1778--Fictional works.

Philosophy in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--18th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Semiotics and literature--France--History--18th century.

Semiotics and literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Summary:

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the paradoxical case of fictions that proffer truths.

Contents:

Cover

READING VOLTAIRE'S CONTES A SEMIOTICS OF PHILOSOPHICAL NARRATION

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. Micromégas

I.1. Competence

1.a. Initiation and General Competence

1.b. Exposition and Instructions for Reading: Specific Competence

I.2. Syntagmatic Process

2.a. Temporal and Spatial Distribution

2.b. Archetypal Action and Its Succession

I.3. Paradigms: Operations, Oppositions, Intertexts

3.a. Operation and Feeling

3.b. Relation and Proportion

3.c. The Pascalian Intertexts

I.4. Devaluation and Modal Communication

I.5. The Ironic or Double Subject: Deconstruction

CHAPTER II. Zadig

II.1. Competence

1.b. Instructions for Reading: Specific Competence

II.2. Syntagmatic Process

2.a. Distribution in the Signifier

2.b. Order in the Signified

II.3. Paradigms

II.4. Modal Communication

II.5. Deconstruction: The Anxiety of Ignorance

CHAPTER III. Candide

III.1. Competence

1.a. Initiation

1.b. Narration

1.b.i. The Narrator and His Récit

1.b.ii. The Narrator and His Hero

III.2. Syntagmatic Process

III.3. Paradigms

3.a. Spheres of Action

3.b. Oppositions

3.c. Closure

III.4. Modes

III.5. The Defeat of Philosophy and of Literature

CHAPTER IV. L'lngénu

IV.1. Competence

IV.2. Syntagmatic Process

2.a. Distribution

IV.3. Paradigms

IV.4. Didactic Procedures

IV.5. Metahistory, Metamyth

CONCLUSIONS

LIST OF WORKS CITED

Back Cover.

Notes:

Chiefly English, some French.

Bibliography: p. [279]-282.

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ISBN:

1-4696-4277-8

OCLC:

1080551449