The fabulous imagination: on Montaigne's essays

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...

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Main Author: Kritzman, Lawrence D. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:[Rezension von: Kritzman, Lawrence D., The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays] (2012) (Hodges, Elisabeth)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de 1533-1592, Essais / Identity / Imagination
Further subjects:B Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Essais
B Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592 Essais
B Imagination (Philosophy)
B Imagination in literature
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Summary: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)
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. [207] - 214
ISBN:0231119925