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After Montaigne : contemporary essayists cover the essays /
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne -a collection of twenty-four new personal essays i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. To the Reader, Sincerely
- 2. Of Liars
- 3. Of the Education of Children
- 4. Of Prayers
- 5. Of Thumbs
- 6. Of Smells
- 7. Of Cannibals
- 8. How the Soul Discharges Its Emotions Against False Objects When Lacking Real Ones
- 9. Of Constancy
- 10. Of Giving the Lie
- 11. Of Friendship
- 12. Of Idleness
- 13. Against Idleness
- 14. Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children
- 15. Of Wearing My Red Dress [after "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes"]
- 16. Of the Power of the Imagination
- 17. That Our Mind Hinders Itself
- 18. Of Books and Huecos
- 19. Of Diversion
- 20. Of Sex, Embarrassment, and the Miseries of Old Age [after "On Some Verses of Virgil"]
- 21. Of Sleep
- 22. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness
- 23. Of Solitude
- 24. Of Age
- 25. Of Practice
- 26. The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes
- 27. We Can Savour Nothing Pure
- 28. Experience Necessary
- Notes
- A Note on the Translations
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y.