The Fabulous Imagination : : On Montaigne's Essays /

The Fabulous Imagination : : On Montaigne's Essays / / Lawrence Kritzman.

"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 contemporizes...

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Kritzman, Lawrence,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Montaigne Is Theory
  • PART I. Monster Theory
  • 1. Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender
  • 2. Representing the monster: Cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11)
  • PART II. Death sentences
  • 3. Montaigne's fraternity: La boétie on trial
  • 4. Montaigne on horseback, or the simulation of death
  • 5. The anxiety of death: Narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4)
  • 6. Excavating montaigne: The essayist on trial
  • PART III. Philosophical impostures
  • 7. The socratic makeover: The ethics of the impossible in "de la phisionomie" (III, 12)
  • 8. Romancing the stone: "De l'experience" (III, 13)
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index

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