What is the status of the 1,500 quotations that punctuate the Essais? This study analyzes the critical reception of these quotations, whose status has endlessly evolved along with successive editions. They have been treated in a manner that reveals a rhetoric engaged in reading this quotation-based work.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14510-3
EAN:9782406145103
ISSN: 0986-492X
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-514-6
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 09-15-2006
Language: French
Keyword: Ornament, copia, philology, reduction, plagiarism, censored quotations, Marie de Gournay, Blaise Pascal, Pierre Charron, sixteenth-century literature
