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Autore |
McDonald Christie <1942-> |
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Titolo |
The dialogue of writing : essays in eighteenth-century French literature / / Christie V. McDonald |
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Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : W. Laurier University Press, c1984 |
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9786613810465 |
9781554585274 |
1554585279 |
9781282232723 |
128223272X |
9780889207080 |
0889207089 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bibliotheque de la Revue canadienne de litterature comparee ; ; v. 7 = Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature ; ; v. 7 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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French literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
France Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Setting the Stage—Afterwards -- Dialogue -- Utopiques -- Writing -- Rousseau -- The Model of Reading: Les Dialogues, Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques -- The Animation of Writing: Pygmalion -- Diderot -- The Reading and Writing of Utopia in Le Supplement an voyage de Bougainville -- The Utopia of the Text: "Encyclopedic" -- Notes on the Neveu de Rameau -- Index of Subjects and Names |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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To the extent that writing has long been considered a substitute for "living" conversation, dialogue has been a quintessential metaphor for language as communication. This volume closely analyzes dialogue, both as a literary genre and as a critical principle underlying the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Diderot. In her analysis, the author examines relationships between texts and writers, between texts and readers, and between texts and other texts (intertextuality). Drawing extensively upon deconstructionist critical sources, as well as upon |
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sociological and anthropological explorations of reading and writing, this volume provides valuable insight into the wonderfully complex acts of writing and reading, the "dialogue of writing." Of interest to students of eighteenth-century French literature, this work is alsoimportant to those interested in contemporary literary criticisms, its theory and practice, as well as to students of Barthes, Derrida, and Beneviste. The volume also presents fascinating applications of the the though of Claude Lévi-Strauss. |
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