The present work offers a phenomenological investigation into melancholy in the Essais, using the resources of linguistics, onomastics, and psychology. Michel de Montaigne, by opening himself to an unsettling strangeness, invents a culture of melancholy and a modern anthropology.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14505-9
EAN:9782406145059
ISSN: 0986-492X
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-780-5
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 09-15-2006
Language: French
Keyword: Theory of humors, ancient literature, Étienne de La Boétie, Tasso, Jean de Léry, Raimond Sebond, aporia, humanism, baroque, sixteenth-century literature
