Author: Sherman, Carol
Title: Reading Voltaire's Contes: A Semiotics of Philosophical Narration
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina, 1985. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 282 pp, Series: University of North Carolina, Studies in the Romance Languages & Literatures, No. 223.. Minor rubbing. Rear cover soiled. VG. ¶ Micromégas: Competence; Syntagmatic Process; Paradigms: Operations, Oppositions, Intertexts; Devaluation & Modal Communication; The Ironic or Double Subject: Deconstruction; Zadig: Competence; Syntagmatic Process; Paradigms; Modal Communciation; Deconstruction: The Anxiety of Ignorance; Candide: Competence; Syntagmatic Process; Paradigms; Modes; The Defeat of Philosophy & of Literature; L'Ingénu: Competence; Syntagmatic Process; Paradigms; Didactic Procedures; Metahistory, Metamyth; Conclusions.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Francois Voltaire, Semiotic, Critical, Semiotics, Narative, Narration, Narratology