{"product_id":"framed-narratives-jay-caplan-9780816614066","title":"Framed Narratives: Diderot's Genealogy of the Beholder Volume 19","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFramed Narratives \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work of French \u003ci\u003ephilosophe \u003c\/i\u003e Denis Diderot (1713-1784) has inspired conflicting reactions in those who encounter him. Diderot has been admired and despised; he has moved his readers and irritated them - often at the same time. His work continually shifts between mutually exclusive positions - neither of which provides an entirely satisfactory answer to the question at hand, yet neither of which can be disregarded. The nature of these paradoxes has been the fundamental problem in Diderot, a problem that his interpreters have approached by imagining synthetic perspectives or frames within which the paradoxes could be resolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFramed Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e, Jay Caplan focuses on the problem of framing \u003ci\u003ein \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003eDiderot. He proposes an interpretive model that draws upon the notion of dialogue developed by Mikhail Bakhtin. For Bakhtin, no utterance can be reduced to a univocal meaning; one's discourse is always marked by other voices. In Diderot, Caplan shows, the narrative device of the tableau engages the reader (or beholder) in a dialogic relationship with the author and the characters. Diderot defines the players of those roles as members of a family, one of whom is always missing, and that sacrificial relationship becomes an integral part of the text. Caplan then uses the concept of the tableau to interpret the rhetoric of gender, genre, and pathos in Diderot's works for and about the theater, his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Nun\u003c\/i\u003e, the philosophical dialogue \u003ci\u003eD'Alembert's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and his correspondence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges from these readings is not only an interpretation of certain texts, but a description of Diderot's--and, by implication, early bourgeois--poetics. \u003ci\u003eFramed Narratives \u003c\/i\u003e is, in addition, one of the first attempts to rely upon Bakhtin's concepts in the interpretation of specific texts, in this case the work of an essentially dialogic writer. A socio-historical supplement to \u003ci\u003eFramed Narratives \u003c\/i\u003eis provided in Jochen Schulte-Sasse's afterword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Caplan, Jochen Schulte-Sasse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816614067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816614066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Jay Caplan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926481830143,"sku":"9780816614066","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_23cb1f5b-e87b-403b-91ff-9ef868b96797.jpg?v=1681083313","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/framed-narratives-jay-caplan-9780816614066","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}