La Copie de Montaigne: Etude Sur Les Citations Dans Les Essais - Paperback

by Christine Brousseau-Beuermann (Author)

What is the status of the 1,500 quotations that punctuate the Essais? This study analyzes the critical reception of these quotations, whose status has endlessly evolved along with successive editions. They have been treated in a manner that reveals a rhetoric engaged in reading this quotation-based work.