Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently

by Steven Rendall

Most modern critics (even those who have emphasized the "evolution" of Montaigne's ideas) have sought to explain away the contradictions and incoherences of Montaigne's Essais. Rendall investigates the role of these internal differences in the opinions recorded, in voices and modes of discourse, in logical levels, in conceptions of writing and of reading, through a series of careful, lucid readings of selected passages of Essais. The author tracks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198151802
• ISBN13: 9780198151807
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"