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Towards a theory of citation: Florid s(c)ites in Rousseau's "Deuxieme Promenade".(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

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From: Intertexts
Date: 20020922
Author:Roy, Jeanne-Helene

In the opening pages of his final, unfinished (1) Les Reveries du promeneur solitaire (1778), Jean-Jacques Rousseau exposes the skeleton of the textual strategy through which his work will be articulated. In this final installment of his project of self-definition begun in the Confessions (1764-68) and Dialogues (1773-75), he writes, he will recount tales of the flower-gathering excursions of his later years. Making pointed references to the herbaria in which he preserves his memories, the author creates a working metaphor: just as the herbier is a hybrid "text" of foliage and ...

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