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portada The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters With a Certain Something
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2005
Language
English
Pages
334
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1.22
ISBN
0199274401
ISBN13
9780199274406
Edition No.
1
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The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters With a Certain Something

Richard Scholar (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters With a Certain Something - Richard Scholar

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Synopsis "The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters With a Certain Something "

What is the je-ne-sais-quoi, if it is indeed something at all, and how can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He examines the expression's rise and fall as a noun and as a topic of philosophical and literary debate, its cluster of meanings, and the scattered traces of its "pre-history." Placing major writers of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to trace a series of first-person encounters with a certain something as difficult to explain as its effects are intense, and which can be expressed only by being expressed differently. He shows how the je-ne-sais-quoi comes to express that certain something in the early modern period, and suggests that it remains capable of doing so today.

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