Reading Voltaire's Contes

A Semiotics of Philosophical Narration
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8078-9227-5
Verlag: UNC Department of Romance Studies

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the paradoxical case of fictions that proffer truths. Micromegas, Zadig, Candide, and L'Ingene constantly guide the interpreter to a single reading; nonetheless, these tales deconstruct their premises at the hands of readers who are conscious of their own status as text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherman, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie