The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment
By: John C. O'Neal
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130645
Subjects: French literature; Enlightenment; Ambiguity; French Philosophy; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Complexity (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater; title: Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit; title: Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot; title: Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles; title: Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul; title: Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity; title: Gender confusion; title: Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry; title: Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion.