From barbarism to universality
Subtitle: language and identity in early modern France
By: Christopher Coski
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611170368
Subjects: French literature; French language; Rhetoric; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Du Bellay's deffence et illustration: the vernacular inferiority complex; title: Montaigne's essais: the baroque mind, language, and being; title: Descartes' discours: the mind/identity complex and human language; title: Vaugelas' remarques: language, quality, and communal identity; title: Condillac's essai: language, analytical method, and identity; title: Rivarol's De l'universalit: French superiority.