The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment /

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Main Author: O'Neal, John C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
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Table of 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.