The fabulous imagination : on Montaigne's essays /

"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters." - Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University. "In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contempori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kritzman, Lawrence D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592. > Essais.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem{de.
Essais (Montaigne, Michel de)
Essais.
Imagination (Philosophy)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Monster theory
  • Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender
  • Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11)
  • Death sentences
  • Montaigne's fraternity : La Boétie on trial
  • Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death
  • The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4)
  • Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial
  • Philosophical impostures
  • The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12)
  • Romancing the stone : "De l'experience" (III, 13).

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