Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne / edited by Zahi Zalloua.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Criticism and interpretation.

Montaigne, Michel de.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Walla Walla, Wash. : In association with Whitman College, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as "theory."Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress his playful use of language. Montaigne's complex and multifaceted works provide fertile ground for exploring themes of wide-ranging significance within the field of literary theory, including the relationship between biography and theory; the critique of modernism; a critical history of the confessional mode of writing; sexuality and gender; and the theory of practice. The essays in this collection move beyond the current stalemate in Montaigne criticism by revisiting questions about the role of theory in literary studies and by opening up a dialogue on the validity and limitations, or use and abuse, of theory in Montaigne studies.

Contents:

From amateur gentleman to gentleman amateur / George Hoffmann

Theory and practice in "Du pedantisme" / Eric MacPhail

Fashion / John O'Brien

Duty, conciliation, and ontology in the Essais / Jacob Vance

Montaigne parrhesiastes: Foucault's fearless speech and truth-telling in the Essays / Reinier Leushuis

"Qu'est-ce que la critique?": La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault / Marc Schachter

Confession or parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne / Virginia Krause

Nasty, brutish, and long: the life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's theory of contract / David L. Sedley

Cannibalizing experience in the Essais / Andrea Frisch

Rereading Montaigne's memorable stories: sexuality and gender in Vitry-le-François / Edith J. Benkov

Theorizing sex and gender in Montaigne / Todd W. Reeser

For a theory of forms in Montaigne / Philippe Desan

Fadaises & dictons / Tom Conley

"Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the practice of theory / Richard L. Regosin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295800479

029580047X

OCLC:

704275011