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Method and Variation Narrative in Early Modern French Thought

By Emma Gilby Copyright 2013

    This book explores the place of enquiries into literality and fictiveness in early modern French thought, making a historically sensitive contribution to the study of early modern narrative and the relationship between logical clarity and persuasive pragmatics.

    Introduction 1. Sun Worshippers 2. Anecdote, Example, Method: Renaissance Accounts of the Death of Pliny the Elder 3. Image and Idolatry: The Case of Louis Richeome 4. The Book of Nature and the Book of Metaphors 5. Anecdotes and Affects 6. Novel Proofs: Villedieu's Les Désordres de l'amour 7. François Bernier: Philosophers' Fictions / Traveller's Visions 8. Language, Image, and the Double

    Biography

    Emma Gilby