'LE PROPRE DE L'HOMME': READING MONTAIGNE'S 'DES CANNIBALES' IN CONTEXT.
This article undertakes an 'embedded reading' of the term 'cannibale' in book 1, chapter 31 of Montaigne's Essais, bringing out the preconceptions about both the term and the Brazilian natives which Montaigne does so much to revise. Different understandings of 'cannibale' and associated terms such '...
| Publicado en: | Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 220 - 235 |
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