| Description |
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Monster theory -- Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender -- Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11) -- Death sentences -- Montaigne's fraternity : La Boétie on trial -- Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death -- The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4) -- Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial -- Philosophical impostures -- The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12) -- Romancing the stone : "De l'experience" (III, 13). |
| Summary |
""This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."" & mdash;Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University""In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes the great writer. Reading him from today's deconstructive America, Kritzman discovers Montaigne always already deep into a dialogue with Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis. One cannot but admire this fabulous act of translation."" & mdash;Hélène Cixous""Throughout his career, Lawr. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.
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Essais (Montaigne, Michel de) |
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem{de. |
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Essais. |
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kritzman, Lawrence D. Fabulous imagination. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 9780231119924 (DLC) 2008045954 (OCoLC)263065436 |
| ISBN |
9780231512510 (electronic bk.) |
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0231512511 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231119924 |
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9780231119931 |
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0231119925 |
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0231119933 |
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