Continuum, Volume 1AMS Press, 1989 - French literature |
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Page 64
... Montaigne was rendering them , their works , and their words timeless ; he was using anachronism and anonymity to assert the lasting relevance of their ideas . Montaigne's cavalier treatment of ancient writers , who still tended to be ...
... Montaigne was rendering them , their works , and their words timeless ; he was using anachronism and anonymity to assert the lasting relevance of their ideas . Montaigne's cavalier treatment of ancient writers , who still tended to be ...
Page 237
... Montaigne had perfected . Across the channel in England , Francis Bacon took up Montaigne's title and launched a genre which now thrived far better in his country than it had in France . Gustave Lanson has suggested that eighteenth- and ...
... Montaigne had perfected . Across the channel in England , Francis Bacon took up Montaigne's title and launched a genre which now thrived far better in his country than it had in France . Gustave Lanson has suggested that eighteenth- and ...
Page 240
... Montaigne's work , the difference between Montaigne and Rabelais on education , the phases through which the author supposedly passed under the successive stars of Seneca , Plutarch , and Sextus Empiricus . The conclusion reached is ...
... Montaigne's work , the difference between Montaigne and Rabelais on education , the phases through which the author supposedly passed under the successive stars of Seneca , Plutarch , and Sextus Empiricus . The conclusion reached is ...
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