TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Neal,John C.
TI  - The progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment
AV  - DC33.4 .O64 2011eb
U1  - 840.9/353 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Newark
PB  - University of Delaware Press
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - France
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 18th century
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index; The subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater -- Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit -- Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot -- Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles -- Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul -- Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity -- Gender confusion -- Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry -- Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11025272
ER  -