- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc (March 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0820469378
- ISBN-13: 978-0820469379
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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In his 1963 debut essay for the militant Quebec journal, Patri pris,André Brochu invoked the figure of the sixteenth century skeptic Michel de Montaigne in the name of what Ralph Waldo Emerson, responding to the same over a century early, had called, "an original relation to the universe"--"Écrire," wrote Brochu, "c'est redéfinir la relation originelle do l'homme à l'univers, c'est, comm é magnifquement Montaigne, 'faire l'homme'…" By tracing the idealism of 19th century American and 20th century Quebec writers back to Montaigne and his rejection of Aristotelian and Scholastic reason, The Renaissance of Impasse offers an alternate history to that found in much (Post) Romantic criticism, wherein modern skepticism tens to be identified with, and so in a sense confined to, the project of Enlightenment reason Rey works from Thomas Carlyle, Emerson and Herman Melville to Huber Aquin, Réjean Ducharme and Victory-Lévy Beasulieu serve to define and to refine the sense of an impasse--peronal, cultural, spiritual, historica,l and political--which accompanies the "modern" drive to renaissance.
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