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Zahi Zalloua - Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne - 9780295988900 - V9780295988900
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Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne

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Description for Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne Hardback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 636.

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as "theory."

Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295988900
SKU
V9780295988900
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About Zahi Zalloua
Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of foreign languages and literatures at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Other contributors include Edith Benkov, Tom Conley, Phillippe Desan, Andrea Frisch, George Hoffmann, Virginia Krause, Reinier Leushuis, Eric MacPhail, John O'Brien, Todd Reeser, Richard Regosin, Marc Schachter, David Sedley, and Jacob Vance.

Reviews for Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne
". . . consistently interesting as each of the contributors, in one fashion or another, wrestles with the inherent (and purposeful) textual flux and the ensuing hermeneutic challenge it poses as givens."
Michael Wolfe
Sixteenth Century Journal

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