Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority - Couverture rigide

Regosin, Richard L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520201949 ISBN 13 : 9780520201941

Editeur : University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's "Essais" both departs from and challenges this conventional figure of textuality. He argues that Montaigne's writing is best described as a corpus of siblings with multiple faces and competing voices, a hybrid textuality inclined both to truth and dissimulation, to faithfulness and betrayal, to form and deformation. And he analyzes how this unruly, mixed brood also discloses a sexuality and gender dynamic in the "Essais" that is more conflicted than the traditional metaphor of literary paternity allows.Regosin challenges traditional critics by showing how the 'logic' of a faithful filial text is disrupted and how the writing self displaces the author's desire for mastery and totalization. He approaches the "Essais" from diverse critical and theoretical perspectives that provide new ground for understanding both Montaigne's complex textuality and the obtrusive reading that it simultaneously invites and resists. His analysis is informed by poststructuralist criticism, by reception theory, and by gender and feminist studies, yet at the same time he treats the "Essais" as a child of sixteenth-century Humanism and late Renaissance France. Regosin also examines Montaigne's self-proclaimed taste for Ovid and the role played by the seminal texts of self-representation and aesthetic conception ("Narcissus and Pygmalion") and the myth of sexual metamorphosis ("Iphis").

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard L. Regosin is Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Matter of My Book: Montaigne's Essais as the Book of the Self (California, 1977).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520201949
• ISBN 13: 9780520201941
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 255
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible