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Diderot’s Endgames: (11 French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)

Diderot’s Endgames: (11 French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)


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One of the most remarkable features of Diderot's work is the refusal of closure in a large number of his texts which appears to leave philosophical, aesthetic or even narrative issues unresolved, and consequently invites a more active participation from the reader than more conventional works. Since it is in the nature of critical discourse to wish to answer questions, this aspect of the works has remained relatively unexplored, with some critics even choosing to ignore the questions asked by the endings in their efforts to give a specific and unambiguous meaning to texts that, in reality, seek to blur their meaning or even to avoid having one. This study addresses the problems posed by Diderot's endings directly, seeking through them to illuminate readings of the works as a whole. Hence it looks not just at the endings, but at what the endings can tell us about the complete texts, and how they are characteristic (or not) of the rest of the works.

Table of Contents:
Contents: A study of Diderot's endingsy; Theatrical works, prose fiction, philosophical worksy; Endings with riddles and reversals, epilogues, fragments and multiple conclusions.

About the Author :
The Author: Derek Connon is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has published a monograph and articles on Diderot's theatre, an article on Mystification, and studies of other theatrical texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Review :
...students of Diderot at every level will find much in this volume to stimulate their interest in his writings, and a good deal to ponder in the discussion even of works which might be thought to be quite familiar. Derek Connon has written a valuable work of Diderot criticism. (D.J. Adams, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783906768359
  • Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
  • Publisher Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 480 gr
  • ISBN-10: 390676835X
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 338
  • Series Title: 11 French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Width: 150 mm


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