An edition of Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France
(2000)
Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France
from nuances to impertinence
by Edward Nye
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Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France: From Nuances to Impertinence (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
April 18, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
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Literary and linguistic theories in eighteenth-century France: from nuances to impertinence
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: THE HISTORY OF 'NUANCES':
IMITATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
1.1 The 'querelle du coloris'
1.2 Le Blon's invention of colour engraving
1.3 Castel's colour harpsichord and colour
weaving
1.4 Girard and synonymy
.5 Condillac's Art d'ecrire
1.6 Bievre's 'calembours'
1.7 Diderot's article 'Beau'
1.8 D'Alembert, Court de Gebelin, and
encyclopaedias
1.9 The theory of genres
Conclusion
2. PRECIOSITYAND ITS DISCONTENTS
2.1 Marivaux and two kinds of 'clarte'
2.2 Houdar de La Motte's idea of poetry and
prose
2.3 Criticism of preciosity
2.4 Fenelon's compromise
2.5 Girard's compromise: Synonymes francois
2.6 Dumarsais's compromise: Traite des tropes
2.7 Olivet's compromise: Prosodie
Conclusion
3. CONDILLAC'S IDEA OF 'NATURE'
3.1 Semiosis
3.2 Empathy in the origin of language
3.3 From 'nature' to 'second nature' in language
3.4 Diderot and composition in painting
3.5 Empathy and gesture in the 'drame
bourgeois'
3.6 Rousseau and the figurative origins of
language
3.7 Buffon's universal style
Conclusion
4. LINGUISTIC AND POETIC SOUND SYMBOLISM
4.1 De Brosses's theory of phonomimetism
4.2 Court de Gebelin's theory of phonomimetism
4.3 Sound symbolism in poetry
4.4 Diderot's hieroglyph
4.5 The perfect language
4.6 De Piis and sound symbolismin poetry
4.7 'Etymologie' as a theory of poetry
Conclusion
5. THE DISSOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
5.1 The linguistic philosophy of 'idologie'
5.2 Universal language schemes: Locke, Delormel
and Maimieux
5.3 L'Epee's sign language -
5.4 Sicard's sign language
5.5 Condillac's algebraic language
5.6 The literary aesthetics of 'impertinence'
5.7 Mercier's literary aesthetics
5.8 M ieier and necrophilia
5.9 Mercier's Tableau de Paris
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
Appendix
La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie, Act III, scene vi, extract
La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie en prose, Act III, scene v,
extract
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
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