Author: Virginia Edith SwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Diderot's "Paradoxe Sur Le Comedien"
Author: Virginia Edith SwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Diderot's Paradoxe Sur Le Comédien ; the Paradox of Reading
Author: Virginia E. SwainThe Paradox of Acting. Translated with Annotations from Diderot's Paradoxe Sur Le Comedien
Author: Denis DiderotPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385350603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Framed Narratives
Author: Jay CaplanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719014772
Category : Authors and readers
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Illusion and the Drama
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment
Author: John C. O'NealPublisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490251
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, John C. O'Neal draws largely on the etymological meaning of the word confusion as the action of mixing or blending in order to trace the development of this project which, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and recognized the need to embrace complexity. Eighteenth-century thinkers used the notion of confusion in a progressive way to reorganize social classes, literary forms, metaphysical substances, scientific methods, and cultural categories such as taste and gender. In this new work, O'Neal explores some of the paradoxes of the Enlightenment's theories of knowledge. Each of the chapters in this book attempts to address the questions raised by the eighteenth century's particular approach to confusion as a paradoxical reorganizing principle for the period's progressive agenda. Perhaps the most paradoxical thinker of his times, Diderot occupies a central place in this study of confusion. Other authors include Marivaux, CrZbillon, Voltaire, and Pinel, among others. Rousseau and Sade serve as counterexamples to this kind of enlightenment but ultimately do not so much oppose the period's poetics of confusion as they complement it. The final chapter on Sade combines contemporary discussions of politics, society, culture, philosophy, and science in an encyclopedic way that at once reflects the entire period's tendencies and establishes important differences between Sade's thinking and that of the mainstream philosophes. Ultimately, confusion serves, O'Neal argues, as an overarching positive notion for the Enlightenment and its progressive ideals.
Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Alienation and Theatricality
Author: Phoebe von HeldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351577034
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.
Early Modern Theatricality
Author: Henry S. TurnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199641358
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.
New Essays on Diderot
Author: James FowlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.