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Author : Stephen Werner
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479312
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Comic Diderot written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Werner
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479404
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Comic Philosophes written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of philosophe fiction through comic irony that is its unifying feature. Readings are offered of exemplary philosophe narratives from Les Lettres persanes to Candide, Le Neveu de Rameau to Justine, as well as an analysis of the evolution of irony from the classical world of Montesquieu and Voltaire to the modern (and subversive) conceptions of Diderot and Sade. Professor Werner argues for a new understanding of comic irony as inseparable from the philosophe aesthetic and, through Sade, an expansion of its usual canon of authors.
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961228
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Jacques the Fatalist written by Denis Diderot and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French fiction of his age. Riding through France with his master, the servant Jacques appears to act as though he is truly free in a world of dizzying variety and unpredictability. Characters emerge and disappear as the pair travel across the country, and tales begin and are submerged by greater stories, to reveal a panoramic view of eighteenth-century society. But while Jacques seems to choose his own path, he remains convinced of one philosophical belief: that every decision he makes, however whimsical, is wholly predetermined. Playful, picaresque and comic, Diderot's novelis a compelling exploration of Enlightment philosophy. Brilliantly original in style, it is one of the greatest precursors to post-modern literature.
Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500554
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book New Essays on Diderot written by James Fowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) 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 reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.
Author : Stephen Werner
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479510
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The French Comic Imagination written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of seven exemplary comic writers from the Renaissance to the modern period, Professor Werner undertakes close readings of texts from each author while analyzing the larger vision of comedy that defines any one narrative oeuvre. From les Caracteres to A la recherche du temps perdu, from L'Education sentimentale to Mort a Credit, Stephen Werner argues for a revised view of comic fiction. Often underestimated by critics, this mode lies at the very heart of l'imaginaire francais by virtue of its creative force and its openness to modernity.
Author : Jennifer Vanderheyden
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820458427
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works written by Jennifer Vanderheyden and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to his philosophical works and innovative novels, the eighteenth-century writer Denis Diderot is most often recognized as one of the major authors of the Encyclopédie. Described by scholars as a modern and provocative thinker and writer, Diderot inspired intellectual discussion with his theories of artistic mimesis, in which he placed special emphasis on what is not stated in words, but is conveyed through gestures and other non-verbal methods of communication. This book explores Diderot's representation of the body as a tableau vivant - a literary painting in which the narrator portrays his characters as if suspended in a state of oscillation between paralysis and movement. The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works discusses how Diderot's depiction of the body poses problems of interpretation for the serious reader/spectator, who, as in Freudian dream analysis, must generate a narrative based on a visual painting of the body's silent speech.
Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516702
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely written by Andrew S. Curran and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity–for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot’s tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.
Author : Otis Fellows
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039376
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by Otis Fellows and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1965 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140444726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Jacques the Fatalist and His Master written by Denis Diderot and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French fiction of his age. Riding through France with his master, the servant Jacques appears to act as though he is truly free in a world of dizzying variety and unpredictability. Characters emerge and disappear as the pair travel across the country, and tales begin and are submerged by greater stories, to reveal a panoramic view of eighteenth-century society. But while Jacques seems to choose his own path, he remains convinced of one philosophical belief: that every decision he makes, however whimsical, is wholly predetermined. Playful, picaresque and comic, Diderot's novelis a compelling exploration of Enlightment philosophy. Brilliantly original in style, it is one of the greatest precursors to post-modern literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039307
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma L. E. Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623568714
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History written by Emma L. E. Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the ‘c-word' obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly ‘covert visibility'. In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History examines the paradox of female genitalia through five fields of artistic expression: literature, film, TV, visual, and performance art. There is a peculiar paradox – unlike any other – regarding female genitalia. Rees focuses on this paradox of what is termed the ‘covert visibility' of the vagina and on its monstrous manifestations. That is, what happens when the female body refuses to be pathologized, eroticized, or rendered subordinate to the will or intention of another? Common, and often offensive, slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences such that we don't ‘look' at the vagina itself – slang offers a convenient distraction to something so taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity
Author : Stephen Werner
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479626
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Absolute Travel written by Stephen Werner and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781980752486
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Skeptic's Walk written by Denis Diderot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Divine Comedy or Pilgrim's Progress for the post-religious age. Finding himself on a quest through the forest of life towards the general rendez-vous at the end, our hero journeys first on the path of religion and faith, then the path of the philosophers where debate and ideas reign, and finally the path of worldly pursuits and pleasure. Along the way he dodges inquisitors, raging fanatics, insane philosophers, faithless lovers, and scheming social climbers. Truly a neglected classic. As Diderot said, "even if you are not amused, you may still benefit from it."This third edition was revised in 2018.
Author : Andrew H. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944290
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Diderot's Part written by Andrew H. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally. In Western Europe during the 1750s, the human body was reconceptualized as physiologists began to emphasize the connections, communication, and relationships among relatively autonomous somatic parts and an animated whole. This new conceptualization was part of a larger philosophical and epistemological shift in the relationship of part to whole, as discovered in that of bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic. Starting from Diderot's concept of the body as elaborated from the physiological research and speculation of contemporaries such as Haller and Bordeu, the author investigates how the logic of an unstable relationship of part to whole animates much of Diderot's writing in genres ranging from art criticism to theatre to philosophy of science. In particular, Clark examines the musical figure of dissonance, a figure used by Diderot himself, as a useful theoretical model to give insight into these complex relations. This study brings a fresh approach to the classic question of whether Diderot's work represents a consistent point of view or a series of ruptures and changes of position.
Author : Felix Vexler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Studies in Diderot's Esthetic Naturalism written by Felix Vexler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739156241
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Immortal Comedy written by Agnes Heller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey through theories of comedy beginning with classical thought. She then detours through foundational political thinkers who refer to, for instance, laughter and power. We are also introduced to modern systematic approaches to thinking comedy, psychological approaches, and existential approaches. The discerning combination of Heller's individual taste for the pantheon of comedic work and, also, what critics may consider 'less significant' work gives this book a character apart from all others. It is the detail with which Heller makes her discussion, how and where she locates 'the comic,' and probably most significantly her discussion of comedy and our own lives that makes Immortal Comedy a principal book for the entire range of humanities scholars and enthusiasts.
Author : Jan Hokenson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640968
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Comedy written by Jan Hokenson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disengaging unstated premises to show how the theoretical discourse about comedy often enacts the intellectual disputes of its time, The idea of comedy tracks the history of comic theories along two principal axes. The first is historical, showing how the Hellenistic ethical conception devolves into social superiority and then into populist assertions, enidng on the question of whether contemporary comic theory is still populist today." "The second axis is conceptual, sorting theories by types of agreement and dispute. Whether comedy improves the citizens or threatens political instability, whether it insults or enacts moral standards, whether it serves God and the integrated superego or the devil and the anarchic id, are some of the questions addressed by theroists such as Cicero, Maggi, Dryden, Kant, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and Genette." -book jacket.
