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Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
The Sixteenth century journal, Aug 31, 2015
Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking
The Sixteenth century journal, Aug 31, 2018
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe. Intersections 49
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Montaigne et Shakespeare: L'émergence de la conscience moderne
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Writing as Medication in Early Modern France
The Sixteenth Century Journal
A Singular Moderation: Excess and Exception in Bouchet and Montaigne
Remembering list: Montaigne's incorporation of names
Historia Ecclesiastica by Thomas Hobbes
Women in French Studies, 2009
thematic and aesthetic complexity, and this despite the upsurge of scientific theories insisting ... more thematic and aesthetic complexity, and this despite the upsurge of scientific theories insisting on the biological and intellectual inferiority of women, and attendant backlash against creative women, discussed by Catherine Perry in her richly textured introduction to the period. Both Shapiro's bio-bibliographical notices and texts selected for the poets included in this section flesh out the stunning array of poetic works by women in modern France. For expert readers, however, the absence of Malvina Blanchecotte, Louisa Siefert and Marie Krysinska from the nineteenth century is glaring and the treatment of Louise Ackermann not sufficiently robust to transmit for posterity her strikingly poetic engagement with science. Readers may challenge for various reasons Shapiro's inclusion or exclusion of particular poets to represent women's poetic achievements in a given century. One may also question why, in a collection aiming to redress women's poetic history, their accomplishments are often, though not exclusively, situated in relation to their male counterparts, eclipsing resonant poetic developments by women across the centuries. Whether expert or amateur, readers will recognize without question the breadth and depth of Shapiro's superb volume, which offers stirring proof of the exceptional legacy of nearly sixty women whose poetic influence shall continue to shape the way we read and write French literary history.
Women in French Studies, 2017
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. David P. LaGuardia and Cathy M. Yandell, eds. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $109.95
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
Exposing Montaigne
Prose Studies, Dec 1, 2007
From the beginning of his Essays, Montaigne explicitly offers himself, naked if it were permissib... more From the beginning of his Essays, Montaigne explicitly offers himself, naked if it were permissible, as their subject; the text is his corpus, its ‘matière.’ Other selections recall the preface as he depicts the birth of his composition and the desire for his thoughts to extend into his writing; later, he claims a text which is consubstantial with its author. The present analysis essays this embodiment, as it examines metaphor, language, citation and anecdote in ‘De la ressemblance des enfans aux peres’ and ‘De l'expérience.’ In these chapters, he focuses on his habits and hygiene, depicting the ever-changing physical differences over time. His readers can thus appraise how the essayist imparts his imperfections, functions and maladies to create, piece by piece, a memorial self which stands exposed as an example capable of contesting narrative disembodiment.
Donald A. Beecher and Grant Williams, eds. Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture. Essays and Studies 19. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 440 pp. index. illus. bibl. $37. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2048–1
Renaissance Quarterly, 2009
Remembering list: Montaigne's incorporation of names
Onoma Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 2005
A Singular Moderation: Excess and Exception in Bouchet and Montaigne
Montaigne Studies An Interdisciplinary Forum. 2017, n° 29. Montaigne and the Historians
Montaigne et le genre instable by Isabelle Krier (review)
Vers la fin de son Apologie de Raymond Sebond, Montaigne nous rappelle la célèbre phrase du philo... more Vers la fin de son Apologie de Raymond Sebond, Montaigne nous rappelle la célèbre phrase du philosophe Héraclite « que jamais homme n'estoit deux fois entré en mesme riviere », (II: 12, 586a). Ainsi pourrait dire le lecteur honnête de Montaigne que jamais il n'entre deux fois en même essai. C'est très à propos, donc, d'avoir un tel recueil de travaux sur Michel de Montaigne et son « visage changeant » dans les Essais. Ce recueil nous invite en effet à considérer comment les lecteurs font face à cette oeuvre protéenne. Car la critique saine et bien fondée n'existe jamais dans le vide, ni hors d'un contexte, ni d'un milieu. La richesse de cette collection réside dans le fait que les chercheurs se rendent compte de la nature changeante non seulement du texte, mais aussi de toutes les variables qui appartiennent à la critique. Ce volume est composé d'une vingtaine de communications données à l'Université d'Exeter au mois de septembre 2000 et représentant les idées et les travaux de spécialistes de Montaigne de sept pays différents. La langue dans laquelle chacun des participants s'exprime a été conservée dans le volume. Il s'agit soit de l'anglais soit du français. Les différentes communications sont regroupées autour de six sujets : 1) le portrait de Montaigne; 2) Montaigne et sa bibliothèque; 3) La méthode de Montaigne-de nouveaux aperçus; 4) Montaigne et ses lecteurs; 5) Montaigne et Mademoiselle De Gournay; et 6) Montaigne et les Anglo-Saxons. Vu l'ampleur de cette entreprise il est remarquable que les éditeurs aient réussi à retenir le thème central du livre, celui du visage changeant de Montaigne. Partons du principe selon lequel les changements d'un texte sont relevés par les lecteurs qui s'intéressent à la valeur littéraire d'une oeuvre. Les deux premiers chercheurs, George Hoffmann et Laura Willett, abordent la question de change-Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, XXVII, 3 (2003) /97 Book Reviews / Comptes rendus
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. David P. LaGuardia and Cathy M. Yandell, eds. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $109.95
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
The Sixteenth century journal, Aug 31, 2015
Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking
The Sixteenth century journal, Aug 31, 2018
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe. Intersections 49
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Montaigne et Shakespeare: L'émergence de la conscience moderne
The Sixteenth Century Journal
Writing as Medication in Early Modern France
The Sixteenth Century Journal
A Singular Moderation: Excess and Exception in Bouchet and Montaigne
Remembering list: Montaigne's incorporation of names
Historia Ecclesiastica by Thomas Hobbes
Women in French Studies, 2009
thematic and aesthetic complexity, and this despite the upsurge of scientific theories insisting ... more thematic and aesthetic complexity, and this despite the upsurge of scientific theories insisting on the biological and intellectual inferiority of women, and attendant backlash against creative women, discussed by Catherine Perry in her richly textured introduction to the period. Both Shapiro's bio-bibliographical notices and texts selected for the poets included in this section flesh out the stunning array of poetic works by women in modern France. For expert readers, however, the absence of Malvina Blanchecotte, Louisa Siefert and Marie Krysinska from the nineteenth century is glaring and the treatment of Louise Ackermann not sufficiently robust to transmit for posterity her strikingly poetic engagement with science. Readers may challenge for various reasons Shapiro's inclusion or exclusion of particular poets to represent women's poetic achievements in a given century. One may also question why, in a collection aiming to redress women's poetic history, their accomplishments are often, though not exclusively, situated in relation to their male counterparts, eclipsing resonant poetic developments by women across the centuries. Whether expert or amateur, readers will recognize without question the breadth and depth of Shapiro's superb volume, which offers stirring proof of the exceptional legacy of nearly sixty women whose poetic influence shall continue to shape the way we read and write French literary history.
Women in French Studies, 2017
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. David P. LaGuardia and Cathy M. Yandell, eds. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $109.95
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
Exposing Montaigne
Prose Studies, Dec 1, 2007
From the beginning of his Essays, Montaigne explicitly offers himself, naked if it were permissib... more From the beginning of his Essays, Montaigne explicitly offers himself, naked if it were permissible, as their subject; the text is his corpus, its ‘matière.’ Other selections recall the preface as he depicts the birth of his composition and the desire for his thoughts to extend into his writing; later, he claims a text which is consubstantial with its author. The present analysis essays this embodiment, as it examines metaphor, language, citation and anecdote in ‘De la ressemblance des enfans aux peres’ and ‘De l'expérience.’ In these chapters, he focuses on his habits and hygiene, depicting the ever-changing physical differences over time. His readers can thus appraise how the essayist imparts his imperfections, functions and maladies to create, piece by piece, a memorial self which stands exposed as an example capable of contesting narrative disembodiment.
Donald A. Beecher and Grant Williams, eds. Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture. Essays and Studies 19. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 440 pp. index. illus. bibl. $37. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2048–1
Renaissance Quarterly, 2009
Remembering list: Montaigne's incorporation of names
Onoma Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 2005
A Singular Moderation: Excess and Exception in Bouchet and Montaigne
Montaigne Studies An Interdisciplinary Forum. 2017, n° 29. Montaigne and the Historians
Montaigne et le genre instable by Isabelle Krier (review)
Vers la fin de son Apologie de Raymond Sebond, Montaigne nous rappelle la célèbre phrase du philo... more Vers la fin de son Apologie de Raymond Sebond, Montaigne nous rappelle la célèbre phrase du philosophe Héraclite « que jamais homme n'estoit deux fois entré en mesme riviere », (II: 12, 586a). Ainsi pourrait dire le lecteur honnête de Montaigne que jamais il n'entre deux fois en même essai. C'est très à propos, donc, d'avoir un tel recueil de travaux sur Michel de Montaigne et son « visage changeant » dans les Essais. Ce recueil nous invite en effet à considérer comment les lecteurs font face à cette oeuvre protéenne. Car la critique saine et bien fondée n'existe jamais dans le vide, ni hors d'un contexte, ni d'un milieu. La richesse de cette collection réside dans le fait que les chercheurs se rendent compte de la nature changeante non seulement du texte, mais aussi de toutes les variables qui appartiennent à la critique. Ce volume est composé d'une vingtaine de communications données à l'Université d'Exeter au mois de septembre 2000 et représentant les idées et les travaux de spécialistes de Montaigne de sept pays différents. La langue dans laquelle chacun des participants s'exprime a été conservée dans le volume. Il s'agit soit de l'anglais soit du français. Les différentes communications sont regroupées autour de six sujets : 1) le portrait de Montaigne; 2) Montaigne et sa bibliothèque; 3) La méthode de Montaigne-de nouveaux aperçus; 4) Montaigne et ses lecteurs; 5) Montaigne et Mademoiselle De Gournay; et 6) Montaigne et les Anglo-Saxons. Vu l'ampleur de cette entreprise il est remarquable que les éditeurs aient réussi à retenir le thème central du livre, celui du visage changeant de Montaigne. Partons du principe selon lequel les changements d'un texte sont relevés par les lecteurs qui s'intéressent à la valeur littéraire d'une oeuvre. Les deux premiers chercheurs, George Hoffmann et Laura Willett, abordent la question de change-Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, XXVII, 3 (2003) /97 Book Reviews / Comptes rendus
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. David P. LaGuardia and Cathy M. Yandell, eds. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $109.95
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
Sixteenth Century Journal, 2018
Richard Scholar's 2010 study on Montaigne, favorably reviewed by Terence Cave, John O'Brien, and ... more Richard Scholar's 2010 study on Montaigne, favorably reviewed by Terence Cave, John O'Brien, and others, continues to offer a comprehensible and consistent analysis of freedom of thought and its significance in the composition of the Essais. Those who are unfamiliar with or have not had access to the hardback edition are now able to purchase this paper version at a lower cost. Since its publication was planned initially in conjunction with the 2010 version, this edition aims at increasing the study's availability and not at changing its critical focus. As such, this review will concentrate on reaffirming the strengths of Scholar's significant study. The volume retains the original organization and begins by addressing the nature of the Essais and the complexities of their extensive examination of so many texts and truths. Although many of these difficulties are overcome by the prevalent tendency to treat Montaigne's text as a search for the self via an appraisal of the narrator's experience of such elements as classical learning, custom, sickness, and death, it is still an incomplete interpretation for Scholar and others. This is because it omits the intense intellectual freedom, which distinguishes the essayist's thought and defines his text. It is this mental independence that enables Montaigne's substantial considerations and revisions as he engages in what Scholar terms experiments or adventures of thought. The unrestricted intellectual exploration informs both topic and composi-tional structure; it also accounts for the Essais' apparent disorder and ambiguities as well as the narrator's transformations and contradictions. Scholar observes how, over the course of text and time, the essayist's exploring thoughts depart from an ever-searching discursive center, itself free to change and also, paradoxically , remain stable. As he surveys his subject, Scholar's characteristic clarity of expression allows readers to follow his close textual analysis as it glides beyond the expected focus of a specific essay or extract and foregrounds Montaigne's intellectual movements. His analysis guides the reader through the text's shifting expression and gives an explanation for the frustrating impossibility of pinpointing clear points of view. In order to affirm the validity of freedom of thought and apprehend the text's overarching purpose, Scholar deftly examines the essayist's expressions of textual generation and composition, noting how, through repetition and revision , they are transformed from traditional, prefatory material and are eventually incorporated across the text. To support his notion of freethinking, he also stresses Montaigne's discriminating placement of dedications and apostrophes and the individuals addressed therein. The most important of these is La Boétie since his presence, and absence, generate the essayist's exploratory thought and
