TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vanderheyden,Jennifer
TI  - The function of the dream and the body in Diderot's works
SN  - 9780820458427
U1  - 848.509 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Dreams in literature
KW  - Body, Human, in literature
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - French literature, history and criticism, 18th century
N2  - "In addition to his philosophical works and novels, the eighteenth-century writer Denis Diderot is most often recognized as one of the major authors of the Encyclopedie. Described by scholars as a modern and provocative thinker and writer, Diderot inspired intellectual discussion with his theories of artistic mimesis, in which he placed special emphasis on what is not stated in words, but is conveyed through gestures and other non-verbal forms of communication. This book explores Diderot's representation of the body as a tableau vivant - a literary painting in which the narrator portrays his characters as if suspended in a state of oscillation between paralysis and movement.The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works discuses how Diderot's depiction of the body poses problems of interpretation of the serious reader/spectator, who, as in Freudian dream analysis, must gener
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