Studies On Voltaire And The Eighteenth Century

Author : Gwenaelle Boucher
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ISBN 13 : 9780729408172
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book La Poésie Philosophique de Voltaire written by Gwenaelle Boucher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. Gwénaëlle Boucher, La Poésie philosophique de Voltaire La poésie de Voltaire, désormais aussi décriée que sa philosophie, constitue un réel enjeu philosophique: le vers possède des vertus heuristiques relayant la raison lorsque celle-ci achoppe sur une difficulté et la pensée se nourrit de la forme même du poème. Certes, Voltaire fait ses premières armes poétiques dans la polémique, propageant en vers sa philosophie portative fondée sur l'allégorie militante ou le vers gnomique, au risque de voir ses vers-maximes inlassablement ressassés devenir clichés rhétoriques et lieux communs de la pensée. Mais avant d'être actif, le vers philosophique voltairien est d'abord réactif, empreint des émotions du poète devant les astres ou les désastres terrestres. Ainsi, si la philosophie est la condition de la 'vraie' poésie, ce sont peut-être surtout les impuissances et les démissions philosophiques qui permettent l'expression poétique. Accédant à la poésie lorsque ses idées échouent à trouver des certitudes devant les incohérences du monde, Voltaire serait-il un poète de l'irrationnel? II. Jennifer Tsien, Voltaire and the Temple of bad taste: a study of La Pucelle d'Orléans Voltaire's mock-epic poem La Pucelle d'Orléans has delighted, offended, and baffled readers throughout the centuries. In addition to its calculated chaos of genre and style, the poem also contains an improbable number of episodic characters and subplots whose fantastic nature is worthy of Orlando furioso. This study makes sense of La Pucelle d'Orléans by demonstrating the way in which it represents Voltaire's definition of bad writing, in view of his criticism and the literary debates of the period. In contrast to the classical ideal that Voltaire championed, his mock epic is filled with precisely those elements that he condemned in the works of other writers, including mixed genres, préciosité, vulgar language, magic, and grotesque metamorphoses. La Pucelle d'Orléans shows us the underside of Voltaire's professed neoclassical aesthetics while allowing his readers to indulge in the pleasures of bad taste.

Author : Voltaire Foundation
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ISBN 13 : 9780729401265
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Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729402729
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Miscellany/Mélanges written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729401739
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Martin Smith
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century written by Martin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729401692
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, vol.76 written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

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Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729401661
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Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729402712
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Download or read book Studies Voltaire 18th Century Volume 64 Melanges/Collections written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Author : Theodore Besterman
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ISBN 13 : 9780729401449
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Miscellany/Melanges written by Theodore Besterman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.