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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)The `essay' is now a well-established and flourishing literary genre in its own right, but when Montaigne coined the word in 1580 he used it to suggest that his collection of discursive musings represented little more...
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From:Explorations in Renaissance Culture (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWith a book as autobiographical as Michel de Montaigne's Essays, (1) one would be justified in concluding there is little not already known about its author. Questions of philosophical and literary influence are...
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From: Michel de Montaigne[An Irish educator and man of letters, Dowden was primarily a Shakespearean scholar, editing many of the dramatist's plays and numbering among his several critical studies Shakspere, His Mind and Art (1875). Also a...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 58, Issue 2)In a short and infrequently cited (or anthologized) essay, "How we cry and laugh for the same thing," Montaigne declares: Frame's translation captures well the homely tone and language that, for many of us, makes...
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From: Raritan[(essay date spring 2004) In the following essay, Bell probes the thematic and metaphysical significance of costume, disguise, and nakedness in King Lear.] RuPaul, the well-known female impersonator, is fond of...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMontaigne's claim to be free from obligations to individual persons or the state in general is based on a corresponding assertion of self-ownership. He claims a property in himself which includes the right to determine...
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From: World and[(review date November 2000) In the following review, Gress offers a positive evaluation of From Dawn to Decadence.] Seven decades of life, reading, learning, and experience has gone into From Dawn to Decadence, an...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)The two major themes of this essay are vanity and travel. They are treated in an erratic and unpredictable fashion. This has led one critic (Grace Norton) to suggest that Montaigne originally composed two essays, one on...
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From: Bulletin[(essay date spring 1996) In the essay below, Morrison explains Montaigne's rejection of torture as part of the execution process and his limited acceptance of torture as a means of interrogation.] Many scholars have...
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From:Byron Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article represents a search for affinities explaining Byron's comparison of Don Juan with Montaigne's Essays. Both proclaim a scepticism expressed by Montaigne as 'Que scais-je?'. Both finally reject the use of...
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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this note is to draw attention to a page of Montaigne's Essais almost systematically neglected by scholars (Rancoeur 539), in which the French philosopher deals with astrology and the legitimacy of...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe unconventional style of the Essais has been an essential part of virtually every major study of Montaigne. Its link to the essayist's discourse on the unnatural--scattered throughout the text--has also been noted,...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1992 marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New World and the 400th anniversary of Montaigne's death. A number of French books addressing one or both of these topics are reviewed. Books on the...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 98, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSCIENCES AND ARTES ARE NOT CAST IN A MOULD, but rather by little and little formed and shaped by often handling and pollishing them over: even as Beares fashion their yong whelps by often licking them: what my strength...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 82, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is now standard practice to interpret Michel de Montaigne's view of friendship through a pre- and post-lapsarian framework, drawing namely from the author's central essay "De l'amitie" (1.28). Prior to the death of...
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From: Studies[(essay date October 1996) In the following essay, Polachek and Tetel discuss the treatment of women in the Essays, contending that Montaigne's complicated views on the subject do not fit the usual feminist/misogynist...
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From: Critical Miscellaneous Essays[A noted nineteenth-century essayist, historian, critic, and social commentator, Carlyle was a central figure of the Victorian age in England. In his writings, Carlyle advocated a Christian work ethic and stressed the...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 82, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedElegance of style is not a manly ornament (Non est ornamentum virile concinnitas) --Montaigne, citing Seneca in "A consideration upon Cicero" (1:40, 251a) (1) That I, the son of the dear murdered, Prompted to my...
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From: Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority[(essay date 1996) In this excerpt, Regosin traces changes in the critical reception of Montaigne's Essays from the literal interpretations of the writer's own time to the current focus on figurative and metaphorical...
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From: Emerson's Complete Works: Representative Men, Seven Lectures[An American essayist and poet, Emerson was one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. As a founder of the transcendental movement and the shaper of a distinctly American philosophy embracing...