The fabulous imagination : on Montaigne's Essays / Lawrence D. Kritzman.

Author/creator Kritzman, Lawrence D.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionx, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-214) and index.
LCCN 2008045954
ISBN9780231119924 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN0231119925 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231119931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0231119933 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ1643 .K75 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold