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Reading Voltaire's Contes : A Semiotics of Philosophical Narration

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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. Microm gas, Zadig, Candide, and L'Ing ne 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780807892275
  • ISBN-10: 0807892270
  • Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
  • Publish Date: January 1985
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.64 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.93 pounds
  • Page Count: 284

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