Books by Zahi Zalloua

Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, this book examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response.

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'.