NEW DATE: Stability, Prosthesis and Collapse in Montaigne’s Experience of Landscape

Throughout his Essais, Michel de Montaigne continuously charts a belabored negotiation of the natural world and its relationship to the human body. Following his insistence upon the entanglement of changeable landscape and inconstant body, Montaigne’s use of ecosemiotic metaphors, portrayal of natural movements, citation of shifting foundations and horizons, and aesthetic and qualitative assessments of the environment underscore the dramatic effect that landscapes have upon the viewing self--a viewing self who strives to seek firm ground in a world perennially “en movement.” 

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The Centre for French and Francophone Research provides a showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across several disciplines at UCL, including literary studies, history, philosophy, art history, anthropology, global health, and the physical sciences. The goal is to create a space for researchers and students from across the university broadly interested in the French-speaking world to share their work and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

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