Montaigne's 'Essais'
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Montaigne's 'Essais'

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Montaigne's 'Essais'

About this book

This book, first published in 1987, is an examination of Montaigne's Essais and a guide to the reading of this fascinating, stimulating and imaginative writer – a writer who is also difficult to read and interpret. This book's aim is to help the reader of Montaigne understand that their own experiences of life and literature can be brought to bear to help comprehend the true meaning of Montaigne.

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Yes, you can access Montaigne's 'Essais' by Dorothy Gabe Coleman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032303260
eBook ISBN
9781000613186

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Contents
  10. Preface
  11. Abbreviations
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 How to Read a Page of Montaigne: Active Participation of the Reader
  14. 3 Intellectual and Philosophical Background
  15. 4 The ‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond’: Religion and Scepticism
  16. 5 Political and Ethical Ideas
  17. 6 The Classical Literary Background: Knowledge and Imagination
  18. 7 The Ambiguous Frontier between Prose and Poetry
  19. 8 The Study of the Self: Psychology/and Humanity
  20. 9 The Art de Vivre: Experience and Aesthetics
  21. 10 Montaigne through the Ages
  22. Notes
  23. Select Bibliography
  24. Index