Identity and ideology : Diderot, Sade, and the serious genre / / Julie Candler Hayes

• Autore: Hayes Julie Candler <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 pages)
• Disciplina: 842/.509
• Soggetto topico: French drama - 18th century - History and criticism; Domestic drama, French - History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Middle class in literature; Sentimentalism in literature
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works; 1. Of Sensibility and Sociability; 2. Diderot; ""UNE ESPECE DE ROMAN"": LE FILS NATUREL; ""LE BEAU SUJET"": LE PERE DE FAMILLE; ""LA PIERRE A AIGUISER"": DISCOURSE SUR LA POESIE DRAMATIQUE; 3. The Equivocal Genre: Bourgeois Drama and the Critics; 4. Sade; ""CE SERAIT POUR MOI UN GRAND PLAISIR ... DE VOIR JOUER MES OUVRAGES"": PLAYS; 5. Conclusions; Appendix Plot Summaries; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The bourgeois drama of ""serious genre"" was one of the major innovative literary forms of the French Enlightenment, but it has been largely excluded from the canon today. In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole. A disparate group as they were, the ""drame's"" practitioners share a new approach to personal identity as relational and derived from the workings of the social network - a notion o
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity and ideology
• ISBN: 1-283-35865-4; 9786613358653; 90-272-7776-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820113003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; ; 35.