num_pages: 115
description: In this study Professor Werner offers a brilliant rereading of Diderot's masterpiece. He argues that Diderot frees irony from the badinage and contradictions of Candide--thereby modernizing philosophical satire through an original blend of Socratic dialogue and the comic style of the Italian opera buffa. In this manner Diderot brings about a profound (and highly modern) change in literary form and narrative technique. This study is a significant critical anlysis of romantic and comic irony in 18th-century prose.
language: English
title: Socratic Satire: An Essay on Diderot and Le Neveu De Rameau
titlecomplete: Socratic Satire: An Essay on Diderot and Le Neveu De Rameau
publisher: Summa Pubns