LEADER 03238oam 22005294a 450 001 9910524868703321 005 20230621141324.0 010 $a0-8018-0188-5 010 $a1-4214-3447-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460852 035 $a(OCoLC)1123163232 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78479 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88928 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29139075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29139075 035 $a(oapen)doab88928 035 $a(OCoLC)1549524542 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460852 100 $a20720626d1966 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRousseau's Venetian Story$eAn Essay upon Art and Truth in Les Confessions /$fby Madeleine B. Ellis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore,$cJohns Hopkins Press$d[1966] 210 4$d©[1966] 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 199 p.) 311 08$a1-4214-3448-2 311 08$a1-4214-3449-0 320 $aBibliography: p. 184-189. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Les Confessions: Prologue to the Story -- II. The Venetian Story -- III. Confessions of the Epilogue -- IV. Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1966. This book is primarily a literary study of Rousseau's account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in book 7 of the Confessions and written in 1769. The author analyzes Rousseau's methods of achieving an artistic rendering of psychological truth in autobiography, as exemplified in his treatment of the events of 1742?1749. Professor Madeleine Ellis contributes to an understanding of Rousseau as a creative artist and positions him vis-à-vis the classical and romantic movements. Ellis collates the text of the Confessions with contemporary correspondence and other documents to show how discrepancies between the two have artistic implications. These implications lead her to define Rousseau's principles and methods as a man of letters and the interrelations of art and truth in his memoirs. In revealing that Rousseau, the memorialist, gives an artistic rendering of psychological truth, Ellis shows Rousseau's attitude toward truth. She does this by following a path of analysis unexplored by previous critics but indicated by Rousseau himself when he says, "It is the story of my soul that I have promised . . . I record not so much the events of my life as the state of my soul as they happened." Ultimately, the objective of this study is to illustrate the artistic means?literary and rhetorical?employed by Rousseau and their implications for the truth he proposed. 606 $aLiterature: history & criticism$2bicssc 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aLiterature: history & criticism 615 7$aLiterature: history & criticism 676 $a848.503 700 $aEllis$b Madeleine B$01115807 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524868703321 996 $aRousseau's Venetian Story$92642867 997 $aUNINA