Approaches to teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the solitary walker /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
2003.
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| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature ;
81. |
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Table of Contents:
- The confessional mode in autobiography: Saint Augustine, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin
- Comparing prefaces: Rousseau versus Montaigne
- An intertextual approach to teaching Rousseau's Confessions
- Teaching Rousseau's Confessions in translation
- "Tout le monde se tut": problems of rhetoric in Rousseau's autobiographical works
- From Reverie to Confession: writing and reading a life story
- The dangers of telling it all
- Public prosecutor Servan and the reception of the Confessions
- The author as celebrity and outcast: authorship and autobiography in Rousseau
- Truth and the other in Rousseau's Confessions
- Rousseau's lottery
- Genre and feminine duplicity in the Confessions
- The mechanics of language: personification in the Reveries
- The perceptual metamorphosis of the solitary walker
- The public and the self: Rousseau and romanticism
- Sympathy and sensibility in Rousseau's Sixth walk and Wordsworth's "The old Cumberland beggar"
- From the Solitary walker to the Flaneur: Baudelaire's caricature of Rousseau
- Altered states
- Reveries of idleness
- Reading Rousseau's women: autobiography and femininity in the Confessions
- A brief chronology of Rousseau's life, with selected corresponding page references from the Confessions and Reveries
- Annotated list of Rousseau's other works mentioned in the Essays (and discussed in the Confessions).