Framed narratives : Diderot's genealogy of the beholder / Jay Caplan ; afterword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse
1985, 1st edition. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425799
ISBN: 0816614059
Physical description; 134 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 119-128. Contents; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Aesthetics of Sacrifice; Chapter Two: Genealogy of the Beholder; Chapter Three: Moving Pictures (La Religieuse-I); Chapter Four: Misfits (La Religieuse-II); Chapter Five: A Novel World (Bougainville as Supplement); Chapter Six: Conclusions; Afterword; Notes; Index. Subjects; Rhetoric ; Early works to 1800. Dialogue. Reader-response criticism. Narration (Rhetoric). Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 Technique.
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