Montaigne

by Marcel Tetel

Book Overview

Tetel brings new revelations in Montaigne scholarship to this update of his 1974 study. He offers fresh insight into the Renaissance essayist's most important topics, such as ambiguity and paradox, the inadequacy of language and the relationship between people and nature. In an entirely new section, he discusses Montaigne's relation to women and love - a topic unexplored until recently. Tetel shows how Montaigne codified and refined the genre of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805782591
• ISBN13: 9780805782592
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"