‘Double et divers’: writing doubly in Montaigne's Essais
‘Je peins principalement mes cogitations’, wrote Montaigne, ‘subject informe.’ But what form of writing is capable of such depiction? Starting with his description of ‘nostre entendement’ as ‘double et divers’, I argue that Montaigne takes two models of thinking about irresolution, one stretching ac...
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Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
2017
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