Order in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne's "Essais"

by Randolph Paul Runyon

Montaigne's Essays are treasured for their philosophical and moral insights and the fascinating portrait they give us of the man who wrote them, but another of their undoubted delights is that they tantalize the reader, offering beneath an apparent disorder some hints of a hidden plan. After all, though the essayist kept adding new pages, except when he added the third and final book he never added a new chapter, but worked within the structure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814212409
• ISBN13: 9780814212400
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"