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Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat
Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Oct 24, 2022
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Podcast episode
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In part one of our Halloween Special on Cats, Kim talks with John Guilliory about Montaigne’s essay “An Apology for Raymond Sebond.” Montaigne asks us: “When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?”
John Guillory is a professor of English at New York University. He is a scholar of Renaissance literature, who is known for his work on why we read what we read, in Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (University of Chicago Press: 1993).
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John Guillory is a professor of English at New York University. He is a scholar of Renaissance literature, who is known for his work on why we read what we read, in Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (University of Chicago Press: 1993).
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Released:
Oct 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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