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almafu_9958352326902883
Format:
1 online resource (280 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812202052
Series Statement:
Critical Authors and Issues
Content:
Goulet argues that modern narrative forms are crucially structured by scientific and philosophical debates about the nature of vision.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds --
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Chapter 1. Second Sight and the Authorial chambre noire: Les Chouans, Louis Lambert --
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Chapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux --
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Chapter 3. Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin --
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Chapter 4. "Effets de lumiere," or a "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or --
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Chapter 5. Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau --
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Chapter 6. Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision --
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Chapter 7. Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune --
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Chapter 8. Death and the Retina: Claire Lenoir, L 'Accusateur, and Les Freres Kip --
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Chapter 9. Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic --
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Chapter 10. Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse --
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Chapter 11. The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Mterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future --
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Epilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman --
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Notes --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812202052
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202052
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202052
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