Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form

1. Introduction: The Essay—That Heretical Genre
Deborah N. Losse

2. Renewing the Ancients: Montaigne’s Retelling of the Tales of Antiquity
Deborah N. Losse

3. Recounting Others, Recounting Self: Montaigne and the Conteurs of his Century
Deborah N. Losse

4. Rewriting Culture: Montaigne Recounts New World Ethnography
Deborah N. Losse

5. “Se peindre de la plume”: History, Biography, and Self-Portraiture in Montaigne’s Reframing of History
Deborah N. Losse

6. A Storied Life and A Lived Story: Writing Oneself in Montaigne’s Essais
Deborah N. Losse

7. “Mes ancestres avoient la medecine à contrecoeur” ‘My Ancestors had an Aversion to Medicine’: Medical Discourse, Observation, and Self-Portraiture
Deborah N. Losse

8. Conclusion: “Ce fagotage de tant de diverses pieces”/‘This Bundle of So Many Disparate Pieces’
Deborah N. Losse

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, European Literature