Compendious Conversations
The Method of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment
Kevin Cope(Editor)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published in December 1992
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-3-631-43714-8 (ISBN)
Description
The abundance of information entering the discourse of both English and continental Enlightenments encouraged the exploration of new or the renovation of old genres and disciplines. Dialogue, the most flexible, responsive, and spontaneous of forms, became not only the preferred, but often the dominant method for the retention, evaluation, analysis, and communication of new worlds of knowledge and for the expunging of old worlds of error. The contributors to Compendious Conversations take advantage of the recent expansion of literary studies into vast catalogues of overlooked works, from dialogical contemplations of Socrates to midnight marital conversations, to consider the status of dialogue as both a literary mode and a philosophical method. They propose the most comprehensive study to date of the social, literary, and philosophical history of the form linking Shakespeare's declamation with Coleridge's table talk.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-43714-8 (9783631437148)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Editor: Kevin L. Cope was born in 1957 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His undergraduate degrees came from the Claremont Colleges; his graduate, from Harvard. Cope is presently a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University, a former Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and President of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His studies have appeared in many prestigious journals; his Criteria of Certainty was recently published by the University Press of Kentucky.
Content
Contents: Thirty essays covering topics from Hobbes to Boswell appear under six headings, «Theory, Art, Ornament,» «Traditions,» «Narrative, Character, Knowledge,» «Engenderings,» «Politics, Precepts, Plots,» and «Stages» - Thus ranging from theory to performance practice.