Front cover image for Encounters with the other : a journey to the limits of language through works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prévost and Graffigny

Encounters with the other : a journey to the limits of language through works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prévost and Graffigny

Print Book, English, 2003
Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2003
Faux titre, no 234
Criticism, interpretation, etc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9789042008250, 9042008253
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The speciousness of origins
The infant other: feral children and civil children
Tropic alterities / tropical territories: lingual colonialism in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Fantasy and infantilization: the Abbé Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne
Language and self-affirmation in Françoise Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne
Previously issued as author's dissertation