Montaigne's “Of Cannibals” and the exploratory essay

Members of English 171, Sages and Satirists, Brown University, 2011

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• Taste Your Own Flesh
• The Subversion of the Barbaric
• The Ill-Informed Judgments of Michel de Montaigne
• The Civilized Barbarian
• Montaigne's Rapid Deconstruction of the Ideal World
• Class Dictating Credibility
• Montaigne and Cultural Relativism
• Speaking with authority in Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals”
• Savage Songs
• The Paradox of Simplicity in Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals”
• Language Barriers and Second-hand Accounts: Narrative Reliability in "Of Cannibals"
• Barbarity versus Barbarity in Montaigne

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