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

Author/creator O'Neal, John C.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011.
Description237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Enlightenment--France.
Philosophy, French--18th century.
French literature--18th century --History and criticism.
Complexity (Philosophy)
Ambiguity.
France--Intellectual life --18th century.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.
LCCN 2010031727
ISBN9780874130645 (alk. paper)
ISBN0874130646 (alk. paper)
ISBN1611490243
ISBN9781611490244

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