Paul J. Smith: "Les "bonnes" femmes de Montaigne : "gender" et narration dans les Essais"
Abstract:
A close reading of De trois bonnes femmes, one of Montaigne's less known chapters (Essais, II, 32), sheds new light on the importance of gender and narration in the Essais. While narrative argumentation as a basic element in Montaigne's writing has never been studied before, the much debated question of his use of gender merits a reexamination, not only because of the chosen subject (woman's praise belongs traditionally to the paradoxical eulogy), but also because of Montaigne's own disqualification of his use of the narrative and his own style as being effeminate.
AsK, jan 2011
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