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Montaigne and brief narrative form : shaping the essay / Deborah N. Losse, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University, USA.
LIBRA PQ1643 .L56 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Losse, Deborah N., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Criticism and interpretation.
- Montaigne, Michel de.
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
- Self in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The essay, that heretical genre
- Renewing the ancients: Montaigne's retelling of the tales of antiquity
- Recounting others, recounting self: Montaigne and the conteurs of his century
- Rewriting culture: Montaigne recounts new world ethnography
- "Se peindre de la plume": history, biography, and self-portraiture in Montaigne's reframing of history
- A storied life and a lived story: writing oneself in Montaigne's Essais
- "Mes ancestres avoient la medecine à contrecoeur" "My ancestors had an aversion to medicine": medical discourse, observation, and self-portraiture
- Conclusion: "Ce fagotage de tant de diverses pieces"/This bundle of so many disparate pieces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137320827
- 1137320826
- OCLC:
- 829386992
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