Kritzman The Fabulous Imagination

On Montaigne's Essays
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-51251-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kritzman, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence D. Kritzman is John D. Willard Professor of French, ComparativeLiterature, and Oratory at Dartmouth. He has been visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and is the author of several books on the French Renaissance. He is also editor of the Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought and the Columbia University Press series European Perspectives.