...Raymond C. La Charité R. A. Sayce. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. 356 pp. $15.00 Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 REVIEWS The Essays oj Montaigne: A Critical Exploration. By K. A. SAKE. Evan- ston: Northwestern...

...Charlotte R. Wadsworth Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 MOLIERE’S DEBT TO MONTAIGNE By CHARLOTTER. WADSWORTH From Charron to Emerson, Tolstoi to And& Gide, French and foreign authors have studied, criticized, imitated, and borrowed from the...

...Claude Rawson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 “INDIANS” AND IRISH: MONTAIGNE, SWIFT, AND THE CANNIBAL QUESTION CLAUDE RAWSON UNSPEAKllVG THE UNSPEAKABLE Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1.xxxi) is one of his most...

... at Los Angetes Emerson’s Montaigne. By CHARLESLOWELL YOUNG.New York : The Macmillan Co., 1941. Pp. 236. $2.50. Although this study cannot be said to throw new light upon either Emerson or Montaigne-since Professor Young’s exposition of their thought is that generally...

... University of California, Berkeley Vgl. hierzu: A. Wolf, “Erzahlkunst und verborgener Schriftsinn”, in: Spruchkunst, 2 (1971), 1 ff. The Age of Slug: Paradox and Ambiguity in Rabelais and Montaigne. By BARBARAC. BOWEN.Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, Illinois...

...Floyd Gray Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 THE UNITY OF MONTAIGNE IN THE ESSAIS By FLOYDGRAY The more Montaigne has been studied, the less complex he has been made to seem. Confronted by his multiplicity, scholars of the...

...Lewis Thorpe MONTAIGNE AND THE EMBLEMS OF JAKOB CATS By LEWISTHORPE The three books of Emblemata or Minne-Beeldenl of Jakob Cats were first published in one volume in Middelburg in the year 1618. It would be easy to overstate the...

...Par Guy Desgranges Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 MONTAIGNE, HISTORIEN DE SA VIE PUBLIQUE Par GUY DESGRANGES L’histoire de la vie publique de Montaigne a souvent 6tC refaite depuis l’ouvrage si peu satisfaisant de Grun.l Des biographies...

...David Quint Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 A RECONSIDERATION OF MONTAIGNE’S DES CANNIBALES By DAVID QUINT At a fairly early point in Des cannibales (Essais 1.31) comes the passage that has greatly...

...FLOYD GRAY L. REGOSIN RICHARD. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977. 274 pp. $11.75. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 REVIEWS The Matter of My Book: Montaigne’s “Essais” as the Book of the SelJ By...

...Raymond B. Waddington Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 ∗ I am grateful to The Newberry Library for an NEH Fellowship, during the tenure of which this study was written. SOCRATES IN MONTAIGNE’S “TRAICTE DE LA PHISIONOMIE...

...Gerard Passannante Abstract Looking at a variety of cases from the early modern period—from debates around astrology to the essays of Michel de Montaigne to the poetry and prose of John Donne and the philosophical fictions of Margaret Cavendish—this essay explores the encounter with materialist...

...Leon Howard Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 R. E. Watters 19 1 morality secular, independent of authority, and self-sufficing (pp. 200-201) ; he also found in Montaigne a congenial robustness and an assertion of “the pristine...

... modulated. And in this connection, what I particularly like about the book is that it is very suggestive and that it leads the reader to add his own mental footnotes along the way. Students of Montaigne will find a wealth of provocative remarks, often introduced by a casual “incidentally...

... Montaigne. The works of Olivier de Magny have appeared in two modern edi- tions, that of Blanchemain (1870-76) and that of Courbet (1871- 86, 6 vols while two major studies have also been devoted to him. Jules Favre’s Olivier de Magny (1885) is unreliable in its chronology and somewhat out of...

... EEducation of Children” (“De l’institution des enfans Michel de Montaigne sets forth his idea of the aim of education. A program of study should not, he says, be designed “to mount a dialectical argu- ment, plead an appeal, or order up a bunch of pills” dresser un argument dialectique, ou à plaider...

... the conquest with Montesquieu’s. Montaigne’s criti- cism in “On Coaches” is deemed flawed because of its “epistemological atomism” (38)’by which each distinguishing characteristic of the native cul- ture is separately assessed. The other side of Montaigne’s piecemeal episte- mology is his...

..., that almost every criticism of Vic- torianism made today was also made by Victorians. BRADFORDA. BOOTII University of California at Los Angetes Emerson’s Montaigne. By CHARLESLOWELL YOUNG.New York : The Macmillan Co., 1941. Pp. 236. $2.50...

... Platonists, the German romantic philosophers, and to Montaigne and Goethe, besides numerous shorter studies of his kinship with Cudworth, Swedenborg, Carlyle, and many others. Until now there has been no thorough study of Emerson and Plutarch, a lack which Edmund G. Berry has supplied most...

..., that is, the realm of rheto- ric” (Kahn, 35 – 36). But in the sixteenth century a more intense, Pyr- rhonist skepticism undermined the assumptions of rhetorical thought (Kahn, 47). In the Essays of Montaigne, (Pyrrhonist) skepticism’s most eloquent advocate and, as an extraordinarily influential...