The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays
Author:   Lawrence Kritzman
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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9780231119924


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 June 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lawrence Kritzman
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9780231119924


ISBN 10:   0231119925
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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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 Boetie 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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Kritzman, whose scholarship and erudition are apparent on every page, skillfully analyzes Montaigne's response to each of these traumas... highly recommended. -- Choice, June 2010


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Lawrence D. Kritzman is professor of French and comparative literature and director of the Institute of French and Cultural Studies at Dartmouth. He has also been visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford Universities. Author of books on the French Renaissance, he is editor of the Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought and the series: European Perspectives.

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