`He doesn't have a leg to stand on': Lameness and knowledge in `Des boyteux'.

Autor: Randall, Catharine
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Zdroj: Romanic Review; May96, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p319, 10p
Abstrakt: Explores the representation of the lame person in Michel de Montaigne's `The Return of Martin Guerre.' Contradiction between Montaigne's commendation of lameness in the novel and his presumed denigration of it in the essay `Des boyteux'; Reliance on crutches as a metaphor for performing an exercise on how to learn; Qualities of the lame person as a sexual partner.
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