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Order in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne's “Essais”

Autor Randolph Paul Runyon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 ian 2017
Montaigne’s Essays are treasured for their philosophical and moral insights and the fascinating portrait they give us of the man who wrote them, but another of their undoubted delights is that they tantalize the reader, offering beneath an apparent disorder some hints of a hidden plan. After all, though the essayist kept adding new pages, except when he added the third and final book he never added a new chapter, but worked within the structure already in place.
 
Order in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais,” by Randolph Paul Runyon, offers a new answer to the question of how ordered the Essays may be. Following up on Montaigne’s likening them to a painter’s “grotesques” surrounding a central image, and seeing in this an allusion to the ancient Roman decorative style, rediscovered in the Renaissance, of symmetrical motifs on either side of a central image, Runyon uncovers an extensive network of symmetrical verbal echoes linking every chapter with another. Often two chapters of greatly different length and apparent importance (one on thumbs, for instance, balanced against one on the limits of human understanding) will in this way be brought together—not without, Runyon finds, an intended irony. The Essays emerge as even more self-reflexive than we thought, an amazingly intratextual work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814254271
ISBN-10: 0814254276
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press

Recenzii

 "Extending work on Renaissance design and symmetry to Montaigne, Randolph Runyon's comprehensive monograph implicitly stands in productive opposition to readings of Montaigne that link the Essais with disorder or with post-structuralist notions of deferral and movement." —Todd W. Reeser, professor, French and Italian languages and literature, University of Pittsburgh
 

“There is no doubt that Order in Disorder makes an important contribution to the field both in terms of the author’s discoveries of hidden echoes between paired chapters and in terms of Randolph Runyon's insights on the concealed structure in the Essais.” —Deborah N. Losse, professor emerita, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University

Notă biografică

 Randolph Paul Runyon is professor of French, Department of French and Italian, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Cuprins

IntroductIon: Marginal Symmetry

I. Book I

1. Of Means and Ends: I: 1 and I: 57
2. The Less Said: I: 2 and I: 56
3. Something to Hide: I: 3 and I: 55
4. Frivolous and Vain: I: 4 and I: 54
5. In or Out: I: 5 and I: 53
6. Trouble Back Home: I: 6 and I: 52
7. Words, in Effect: I: 7 and I: 51
8. Of Idleness and Horses: I: 8 and I: 50
9. Lying, After a Fashion: I: 9 and I: 49
10. Excess Baggage: I: 10 and I: 48
11. Enough Already: I: 11 and I: 47
12. Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46
13. A Waiting Game: I: 13 and I: 45
14. More Than One Port in a Storm: I: 14 and I: 44
15. Custom and Princely Grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43
16. Judging Julian Judging: I: 16 and I: 42
17. Glory, Given and Taken: I: 17 and I: 41
18. Empty Signs: I: 18 and I: 40

II. Book II
1. Sorting Out the Pieces: II: 1 and II: 37
2. Slipping It In: II: 2 and II: 36
3. Suicide Is Painless: II: 3 and II: 35
4. Caesar the Procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34
5. Suffering Innocence: II: 5 and II: 33
6. Parallel Deaths: II: 6 and II: 32
7. Rewards and Punishments: II: 7 and II: 31
8. Hidden Monsters: II: 8 and II: 30
9. Only When You Need It: II: 9 and II: 29
10. Act Your Age: II: 10 and II: 28
11. Doubly Cruel: II: 11 and II: 27
12. Opposable Thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26
13. Eyes Wide Shut: II: 13 and II: 25
14. Equivalent Equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24
15. Civil War vs. Civil War: II: 15 and II: 23
16. Spreading the News: II: 16 and II: 22
17. Spitting Images: II: 17 and II: 21
18. Consubstantial Consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20

III. Book III
1. Distant Harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13
2. Distant Theft: III: 2 and III: 12
3. Intercourse with the Lame: III: 3 and III: 11
4. The Little Things: III: 4 and III: 10
5. Sexual Vanity, Vain Sex: III: 5 and III: 9
6. Borrowed Wealth: III: 6 and III: 8

IV. Journey to the center of the Book
I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7

EpIlogue: The Playful Text

Descriere

Offers a new answer to the question of how ordered Montaigne’s Essays may really be.