The Progressive Poetics Of Confusion In The French Enlightenment
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The Progressive Poetics Of Confusion In The French Enlightenment
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Author : John C. O'Neal
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2011-03-14
The Progressive Poetics Of Confusion In The French Enlightenment written by John C. O'Neal and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-14 with Political Science categories.
In The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, John C. O'Neal draws largely on the etymological meaning of the word confusion as the action of mixing or blending in order to trace the development of this project which, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and recognized the need to embrace complexity. Eighteenth-century thinkers used the notion of confusion in a progressive way to reorganize social classes, literary forms, metaphysical substances, scientific methods, and cultural categories such as taste and gender. In this new work, O'Neal explores some of the paradoxes of the Enlightenment's theories of knowledge. Each of the chapters in this book attempts to address the questions raised by the eighteenth century's particular approach to confusion as a paradoxical reorganizing principle for the period's progressive agenda. Perhaps the most paradoxical thinker of his times, Diderot occupies a central place in this study of confusion. Other authors include Marivaux, Crébillon, Voltaire, and Pinel, among others. Rousseau and Sade serve as counterexamples to this kind of enlightenment but ultimately do not so much oppose the period's poetics of confusion as they complement it. The final chapter on Sade combines contemporary discussions of politics, society, culture, philosophy, and science in an encyclopedic way that at once reflects the entire period's tendencies and establishes important differences between Sade's thinking and that of the mainstream philosophies. Ultimately, confusion serves, O'Neal argues, as an overarching positive notion for the Enlightenment and its progressive ideals.
The Sea In The Literary Imagination
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Author : Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-03
The Sea In The Literary Imagination written by Ekaterina V. Kobeleva and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.
Exorbitant Enlightenment
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Author : Alexander Regier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Exorbitant Enlightenment written by Alexander Regier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Exploring an Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790, this volume offers a new approach to eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture. It explores a set of radical figures and institutions that are exorbitant, with particular focus on William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann.
The Autonomy Of Pleasure
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Author : James A. Steintrager
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-16
The Autonomy Of Pleasure written by James A. Steintrager and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-16 with Philosophy categories.
What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous—and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.
Bibliographie Der Franz Sischen Literaturwissenschaft 2015
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Author : Otto Klapp
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Bibliographie Der Franz Sischen Literaturwissenschaft 2015 written by Otto Klapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with French literature categories.
Classicism And Romanticism In Italian Literature
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Author : Fabio A Camilletti
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Classicism And Romanticism In Italian Literature written by Fabio A Camilletti and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.
A History Of German Literature
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Author : John George Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1931
A History Of German Literature written by John George Robertson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with German literature categories.
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959-02
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959-02 with categories.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Styles Of Enlightenment
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Author : Elena Russo
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2007-01-19
Styles Of Enlightenment written by Elena Russo and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining. They were convinced that the standard of taste was too important a matter to be left to the whims of the public and the vagaries of the marketplace: aesthetic judgment ought to belong to a few, enlightened minds who would then pass it on to the masses. Through readings of fictions, essays, memoirs, eulogies, and theatrical works by Fénelon, Bouhours, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Mercier, Thomas, and others, Styles of Enlightenment traces the stages of a confrontation between the virile philosophe and the effeminate worldly writer, "good" and "bad" taste, high art and frivolous entertainment, state patronage and the privately sponsored marketplace, the academic eulogy and worldly conversation. It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.
Poetry S Appeal
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Author : E. S. Burt
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Poetry S Appeal written by E. S. Burt and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poetry's Appeal studies the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. It finds that poetry addresses history and the political through a disjunction between its illusory status as a song of private, lyrical intent and its actual state as a material inscription, inevitably public in character.