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1 online resource |
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Introduction: The essay, that heretical genre -- Renewing the ancients: Montaigne's retelling of the tales of antiquity -- Recounting others, recounting self: Montaigne and the conteurs of his century -- Rewriting culture: Montaigne recounts new world ethnography -- "Se peindre de la plume": history, biography, and self-portraiture in Montaigne's reframing of history -- A storied life and a lived story: writing oneself in Montaigne's Essais -- "Mes ancestres avoient la medecine à contrecoeur" "My ancestors had an aversion to medicine": medical discourse, observation, and self-portraiture -- Conclusion: "Ce fagotage de tant de diverses pieces"/This bundle of so many disparate pieces |
| Summary |
The first book-length study to trace the origins of theessay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form putsthe reader in touch with how unstable times and exceptional artistic insightstransform one genre to create a new artistic form |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais
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| SUBJECT |
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 fast |
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Essais (Montaigne, Michel de) fast |
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Self in literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- French.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- French.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Literature.
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Self in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137320834 |
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1137320834 |
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1299717101 |
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9781299717107 |
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