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Author O'Neal, John C., author.

Title The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment / John C. O'Neal.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
2011

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Enlightenment -- France.
Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Complexity (Philosophy)
Ambiguity.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: O'Neal, John C. Progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011] 237 pages ; 24 cm 9781611490244 (OCoLC)ocn652743716
ISBN 9780874130645 (alk. paper)
0874130646 (alk. paper)
1611490243
9781611490244
9781611490251 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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