![]() | Half-Told Tales: Dilemmas of Meaning in Three French Novels Subjects: French fiction -- 18th century -- History and crltlctsm; Marivaux Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de 1688-1763. Vie de Marianne; Rousseau Jean Jacques 1712-1778. Nouvelle Héloïse; Diderot Denis 1713-1784. Religieuse; Philip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels--Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne , Diderot's La Religieuse , and Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise --the characters' sincerity disguises how incompletely the meaning of their own experience is resolved. However clear their premises, ambiguity creeps in, compromising or subtly contradicting the clarity of their vision. Stewart reveals these countercurrents or repressive rhetorical strategies and situates them with respect to the broad thematics of each work. |
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