From the Perspective of the Self : : Montaigne's Self-Portrait /

From the Perspective of the Self : : Montaigne's Self-Portrait / / Craig B. Brush.

In 1580 Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) presented a literary project to the public the type of wich had never before been introduced- a collection of Essays with himself as subject. Never before had a writer attempted a literary self-portrait, and in so doing Montaigne named and defined a new litera...

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Brush, Craig B.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
©1994
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Likenesses
  • 3. A Self-Portrait Is Not an Autobiography
  • 4. The Form of the Portrait
  • 5. Beginnings
  • 6. An Animal that Reasons
  • 7. I Have Nothing to Say About Myself Simply
  • 8. Modest Me
  • 9. Making It Personal
  • 10. Study Without a Book
  • 11. The Portrait of Man
  • 12. Living for the Self
  • 13. The Portrait of the Self
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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