New essays on Diderot /
"The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713-1784) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflect...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / James Fowler
- Part I. Diderot the Philosophe: 1. Diderot and the ancients / Russell Goulbourne; 2. Diderot's earlier philosophical writings / Marian Hobson; 3. The Encyclopédie: innovation and legacy / Daniel Brewer; 4. Diderot, Rousseau and the art of craft / Angelica Goodden; 5. Diderot's anti-colonialism: a problematic notion / Anthony Strugnell; 6. Diderot's letters to Sophie Volland / Pierre Saint-Amand
- Part II. Novels: 7. Les Bijoux indiscrets: transition or translation? / Anne Deneys-Tunney; 8. Jacques le fataliste et son maître: finding myself in the work of another / Joseph Breines; 9. La Religieuse: Diderot's 'Richardsonian' novel / James Fowler
- Part III. Dialogues: 10. Eyes wide shut: Le Rêve de d'Alembert / Kate E. Tunstall; 11. Logics of the human in the Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville / Andrew Curran
- Part IV. Plays and Dramatic Theory: 12. Diderot and Olympe de Gouges convert the tyrand and transform the family / Carol L. Sherman; 13. Diderot and Destouches: Le Philosophe marié in Est-il-bon? Est-il méchant? / Derek Connon
- Part V. Music, Performance, Aesthetics: 14. Diderot's voice(s): music and reform, from the Querelle des Bouffons to Le Neveu de Rameau / Mark Darlow; 15. Diderot and the aesthetics of the Libretto / Béatrice Didier; 16. Ekphrasis and related issues in Diderot's Salons / Tom Baldwin.