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Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently - Rendall, Steven
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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 their operation in the text and shows how Montaigne's writing constantly ...

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Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently 1992, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198151807

Hardcover