Note: All passages from Montaigne in discussions by members of the 2002 class come from Donald M. Frame's The Complete Essays of Montaigne (Stanford UP, 1948). All such passages in discussions by members of the 2003, 2005, ansd 2007 classes come from 1877 Cotton translation.
- Text (1877 edition: Translated by Charles Cotton. Edited by William Carew Hazilitt.)
Literary Relations
- Wisdom Speaker vs. Satirist: The Use of Comparison and Relativism in Montaigne and Swift
- Aristotle and Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
Themes
- V a l o r a s t h e P r i m a r y T r a i t o f t h e G o o d S o c i e t y
- Barbaric Wars of Jealousy
- The Absence of the Body in Montaigne's Analysis of Cannibalism
- Montaigne on the limitations of the interpreter
- Montaigne and the Issue of a Writer's Credibility
- Comparisons to Europe in "Of Cannibals"
- Romanticizing the New World
- Berlin, Montaigne, and Understanding other cultures
- Montaigne on valor
- Generations of Mythic Identity
- Is Monaigne naive?
- Montaigne's Noble Savagery
- The Barbaric Other
- Views of the other in Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
- Montaigne's Aversion to Art
- Classical Valor and Modern Barbarity
- Moral Barbarism in Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
Techniques
- Time and Distance in 'Of Cannibals'
- Rhetoric of the Haves and Have-nots
- Montaigne meanders
- Montaigne's Use of Plato
- Michel de Montaigne's Anthropologic Love Song
- Montaigne's Image of the State
- Courage of the Conquered: Montaigne's Tangent
- Montaigne's use of sarcasm when the cannibals visit Europe
- Attention to Detail in Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
- Cannibalism in two societies
- Evidence and Elitism in Michel de Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
- The problem of indirectness in Michel de Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
- The Power of the Narrator in "Of Cannibals"
- The Rhythm of Montaigne: Perfecting Essay Writing to a Science
- Reference and Structure in "Of Cannibals"
- New World writing as a reflection on the Old World
- Montaigne and Distance in "Of Cannibals"
- Narrator's Point of View
- The Credibility of Montaigne's Support for Unadorned Nature
- Credibility in Montaigne
- Ethos and Cannibal Song
- Montaigne's Narrative Voice in "Of Cannibals"
20 September 2007