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Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently

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Most modern critics 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.

Pages: 136

Format: ebook

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 10, 2010

ISBN: 1280764570

ISBN 13: 9781280764578

Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently

0/5 ( ratings)

Most modern critics 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.

Pages: 136

Format: ebook

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 10, 2010

ISBN: 1280764570

ISBN 13: 9781280764578

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