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In a fresh reading of Montaigne's "Essais", David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse. From the first essay, Montaigne places the reader in a world of violent political conflict reminiscent of the French Wars of Religion through which he lived and wrote. Quint shows how a group of interrelated essays, including the famous one about the cannibals of Brazil, explores the confrontation between warring adversaries: a clement or vindictive victor and his suppliant or defiant captive. How can the two be reconciled? In a climate of hatred and obstinacy, Montaigne argues not only for the political necessity but also for the moral imperative of trusting and submitting to others and of extending mercy to them. For Quint, this ethical message informs other topics of the "Essais": Montaigne's criticism of stoic models of virtue, his project to reform the cruel behaviour of his noble class, his self-portrait that depicts his relaxed and unstudied nature, and his measuring of his own behaviou against the classical virtue of Socrates. The reading shows that Montaigne was always aware of the other side of the issue. The moral thought of the "Essais" emerges as modern, both in the perennial urgency of Montaigne's concerns and in the self-questioning open-endedness of his doctrine.
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9780691632469, titled "Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the "Essais"" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $74.95
9780691048369 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In a fresh reading of Montaigne's "Essais", David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse.
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9780691603025, titled "Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the "Essais"" | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse.
Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint's comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost--its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam's decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
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9780691161914, titled "Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton's Epic" | Princeton Univ Pr, February 2, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.
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9780691159744, titled "Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton's Epic" | Princeton Univ Pr, February 2, 2014, cover price $35.00
Product Description: James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language...read more
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9780872209596 | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 31, 2009), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them.
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9780321198747, titled "William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: A Longman Cultural Edition" | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, July 6, 2007), cover price $17.80
Product Description: This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. David Quint discovers a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes...read more
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9780691114330 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts.
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9780691122274 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 5, 2005, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts.
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9780520200098 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, March 1, 1996, cover price $31.95
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9780520200074 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $85.00
Product Description: Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature...read more
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9780691069425 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism.
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9780691015200 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 25, 1993, cover price $55.00
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9780271028712 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, July 1, 2005, cover price $30.95
9780271009377 | Reprint edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1993), cover price $21.95
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9780866981095 | Mrts, January 1, 1993, cover price $18.00
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9780801832949 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1986, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: "The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory.
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9780801832956 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory.
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9780300028942 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A wide-ranging, comparative study of the problematic status of originality in Renaissance literature.
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