Structures of perception in Jean Potocki’s Voyage dans l’Empire de Maroc

  • Isabella Mattazzi Unité mixte de recherche LIRE di Grenoble
Keywords: Perception, Travel, Otherness, Eighteenth-century Literature

Abstract

Analyzing a given literary period and comparing it to another poses us much more than a question at a critical level. Working on eighteenth century texts means not only individuating points of affinity with our contemporary period, but also substantially questioning the sense of “otherness” inherent to each period that has past. Working from this notion and referring to Jean Potocki’s Voyage dans l’Empire de Maroc, this paper focuses on the perceptive modalities of a century, that is to say the “modes of seeing” through which the eighteenth century vision “perceived and thought” the world, thereby penetrating a complex thematic canvas, which is of key importance to the analysis of modern European identity and its infinite contradictions.

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Author Biography

Isabella Mattazzi, Unité mixte de recherche LIRE di Grenoble

Isabella Mattazzi works as a researcher at the “Unité mixte de recherche LIRE” in Grenoble. She has published three books: La magia come maschera di Eros. Silfidi demoni e seduttori nella Francia del Settecento (2007); Il labirinto cannibale. Viaggio nel Manoscritto trovato a Saragozza di Jean Potocki (2007); and L’ingannevole prossimità del mondo. Forme della percezione nel romanzo moderno (2011). She translated and edited Jacques Cazotte’s Diavolo innamorato (2011)  and she collaborates with “il manifesto” and “L’Indice dei Libri del mese”.

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Published
2011-11-23
How to Cite
Mattazzi, I. (2011). Structures of perception in Jean Potocki’s <i>Voyage dans l’Empire de Maroc</i&gt;. Between, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/285