With the advent of the Essais, quotation is for the first time called upon to bend itself to help create a new personal kind of writing. Analyzing the status of quotation in literature from classical antiquity to the Renaissance puts the originality of Michel de Montaigne’s practice in perspective.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques