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Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently

Steven Rendall

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Description: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 ofdiscourse, 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 recontextualizes his own discourse--through his practice ofinterpolating new material in successive editions and adding new chapters--as well as that of other authors through quotation, paraphrase, and commentary. Rather than merely negative features, Rendall argues that such differences are essential to a practice of writing that both defines andchallenges a notion of unity and can be seen as an uneasy and disturbing element related to a historical shift from earlier ways of controlling meaning to one based on the author function. This careful and lucid book presents a fresh and significant interpretation of the Essais and shows howMontaigne's work might be read in a different way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently. To get started finding Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 136

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: 2010

ISBN: 1280764570

Description: 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 ofdiscourse, 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 recontextualizes his own discourse--through his practice ofinterpolating new material in successive editions and adding new chapters--as well as that of other authors through quotation, paraphrase, and commentary. Rather than merely negative features, Rendall argues that such differences are essential to a practice of writing that both defines andchallenges a notion of unity and can be seen as an uneasy and disturbing element related to a historical shift from earlier ways of controlling meaning to one based on the author function. This careful and lucid book presents a fresh and significant interpretation of the Essais and shows howMontaigne's work might be read in a different way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently. To get started finding Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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