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Author:

Kritzman, Lawrence D.

Title:

The fabulous imagination : on Montaigne's Essays / Lawrence D. Kritzman.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 227 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Montaigne, Michel de,--1533-1592.--Essais
Imagination (Philosophy)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-214) and index.

Contents:

Monster theory -- Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender -- Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11) -- Death sentences -- Montaigne's fraternity : La Bo©♭tie on trial -- Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death -- The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4) -- Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial -- Philosophical impostures -- The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12) -- Romancing the stone : "De l'experience" (III, 13).

ISBN:

0231119933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231119931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231119925 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780231119924 (hard cover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)263065436

LCCN:

2008045954

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)