Beschreibung:
<p>Montaigne states in the "Apologie de Raimond Sebond" that his writing is "born with him" and "without a model" (sans patron). Setting the Essais within the larger contexts of intertextual dynamics with the ancients, Renaissance rhetorical and poetic traditions, and the broader movement of humanism itself, the article shows how Montaigne ties these threads together at the beginning of the "Apologie" (in his description of Pierre Bunel's visit to his father's château) as a way of rejecting his literary-and literal-fathers (or patrons) and establishing his own authorial identity.</p>