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The je-ne-sais-quoi in early modern Europe : encounters with a certain something /

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Scholar examines the rise to prominence of the phrase 'je-ne-sais-quoi' in authors such as Montaigne, Shakespeare Descartes, Corneille and Pascal as a way of tracing first-person encounters with a certain something that can only ever be described by being expressed differently.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scholar, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Je ne sais quoi (The French phrase)
French language > Etymology.
Je ne sais quoi (L'expression française)
Français (Langue) > Étymologie.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
French language > Etymology
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Terminology
Dictionaries
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Call Number: PC2460 .S36x 2005eb
 
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