THE CRITICAL CONNECTION
The Question of History
and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
By
Elaine M. Ancekewicz (Long Island University, USA)
Ancekewicz examines problems in the understanding of
history raised by the text of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. The analysis
focuses on textual practice as well as on explicit statement. This leads to the
exploration of two principal sites of investigation: (1) the relationship of
representation to origin and (2) continuity and coherence or underlying identity. The
critical connection concerns the notions of connection and critique, the ambivalences not
only linking history to literature, but also characterizing history and literature in the
hermeneutics of interpretation.
Ancekewicz addresses the notions of history and language
as they play out in the text of Montaigne. The
book further analyzes the traditional reading of the Essays, which considers the
work at once literary and philosophical, engaging both political and moral philosophy.
Elaine M. Ancekewicz
received her Ph. D. in French Language and Literature from Yale University. She was awarded a great number of prestigious scholarships and Fellowships. She is the author of several books, numerous articles and papers on early modern French literature and cultural studies; critical theory and poetics. She is currently a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the C.W.Post Campus at Long Island University, USA.ISBN 1-889431-48-6
$49.95
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