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Machine generated contents note: THE HISTORY OF 'NUANCES': -- IMITATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 1.1 The 'querelle du coloris' -- 1.2 Le Blon's invention of colour engraving -- 1.3 Castel's colour harpsichord and colour -- weaving -- 1.4 Girard and synonymy -- .5 Condillac's Art d'ecrire -- 1.6 Bievre's 'calembours' -- 1.7 Diderot's article 'Beau' -- 1.8 D'Alembert, Court de Gebelin, and -- encyclopaedias -- 1.9 The theory of genres -- Conclusion -- 2. PRECIOSITYAND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 2.1 Marivaux and two kinds of 'clarte' -- 2.2 Houdar de La Motte's idea of poetry and -- prose -- 2.3 Criticism of preciosity -- 2.4 Fenelon's compromise -- 2.5 Girard's compromise: Synonymes francois -- 2.6 Dumarsais's compromise: Traite des tropes -- 2.7 Olivet's compromise: Prosodie -- Conclusion -- 3. CONDILLAC'S IDEA OF 'NATURE' -- 3.1 Semiosis -- 3.2 Empathy in the origin of language -- 3.3 From 'nature' to 'second nature' in language -- 3.4 Diderot and composition in painting -- 3.5 Empathy and gesture in the 'drame -- bourgeois' -- 3.6 Rousseau and the figurative origins of -- language -- 3.7 Buffon's universal style -- Conclusion -- 4. LINGUISTIC AND POETIC SOUND SYMBOLISM -- 4.1 De Brosses's theory of phonomimetism -- 4.2 Court de Gebelin's theory of phonomimetism -- 4.3 Sound symbolism in poetry -- 4.4 Diderot's hieroglyph -- 4.5 The perfect language -- 4.6 De Piis and sound symbolismin poetry -- 4.7 'Etymologie' as a theory of poetry -- Conclusion -- 5. THE DISSOLUTION OF LANGUAGE -- 5.1 The linguistic philosophy of 'idologie' -- 5.2 Universal language schemes: Locke, Delormel -- and Maimieux -- 5.3 L'Epee's sign language - -- 5.4 Sicard's sign language -- 5.5 Condillac's algebraic language -- 5.6 The literary aesthetics of 'impertinence' -- 5.7 Mercier's literary aesthetics -- 5.8 M ieier and necrophilia -- 5.9 Mercier's Tableau de Paris -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie, Act III, scene vi, extract -- La Motte, (Edipe, tragedie en prose, Act III, scene v, -- extract -- Bibliography -- Index. |
