François Migeot,Portée des ombres. Pour une poétique de la lecture (Choderlos de Laclos, Balzac, Baudelaire, Camus, Duras, Koltès, Lagarce, Louis-Combet, Robbe-Grillet, Sartre). Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée

Die Reduzierung des Weiblichen auf den Naturinstinkt (Choderlos de Laclos)

Das Moralische Geschlecht ◽

10.1007/978-3-476-03409-0_7 ◽

1992 ◽

pp. 97-104

Author(s):

Lieselotte Steinbrügge

Keyword(s):

Choderlos De Laclos

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Choderlos de Laclos.

Eighteenth-Century Studies ◽

10.2307/2738087 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 432

Author(s):

Philip Stewart ◽

Ronald C. Rosbottom

Keyword(s):

Choderlos De Laclos

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Styles of Cognition as Moral Options in La Nouvelle Hélïse and Les Liaisons dangereuses

PMLA ◽

10.2307/461494 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 88 (2) ◽

pp. 289-298

Author(s):

Carol Blum

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Style ◽

Coming Of Age ◽

Moral Imperative ◽

Choderlos De Laclos ◽

Style Of Thought ◽

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed the distinctive style of thought presented in La Nouvelle Héloïse in order to reconcile conflicting needs for erotic pleasure, innocence, and transparency. The cognitive style thus evolved and put forth as a moral imperative, emphasizing both the subject's ability to lose himself in an emotional fusion with others and the overwhelming power of the passions, found favor with the generation coming of age in 1761. Choderlos de Laclos, a member of that generation, although apparently much impressed by some aspects of Rousseau, presents in Les Liaisons dangereuses a cognitive style which is the antithesis and refutation of the one in La Nouvelle Héloïse. The “sentiment involontaire,” so frequently invoked in La Nouvelle Héloïse as an excuse for the inadmissible impulse or action, is subject to a scornful analysis by Laclos. Whereas Rousseau attempted to seduce the reader into accepting the morality of his novel, Laclos, on the contrary, sets up a trap by which the reader is made to recognize his own complicity, motivated by curiosity, in the maneuvers of the rapacious protagonists.

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