Montaigne prefaces the works of Etienne de la Boétie with a letter that Montaigne supposedly wrote shortly after the sudden death of his friend, whose last enigmatic words to Montaigne were: “make a place for me”. A close examination of the intertexts and rhetoric of the letter reveals that it can be read as a failed attempt by Montaigne to respond to his friend’s wish. The letter, indeed, fails to offer a true literary place to his friend who ceased to be a privileged addressee or reader, to become an absent object of discourse mentioned in the third person. Montaigne will try to “make a place” for his dead friend elsewhere, while writing his Essais, by developing a polyphonic mode of writing functioning as a substitute to the lost friendship. It will be argued that in the Essais, friendship, more that a mere content of discourse, becomes a form of expression.
Effekte eines tutorenbasierten Lernstrategietrainings für StudierendeZusammenfassung Um Erstsemester/innen in ihrer Orientierungsphase zu helfen, erhielten sie vor Studienbeginn eine Einführung in Lernstrategien. Diese empirische Studie untersucht, ob ein tutorenbasiertes Lernstrategietraining positive Effekte auf den Lernstrategieeinsatz der Studierenden aufweist. Während eines Trainingscamps wurden sie (n=207) von geschulten Tutorinnen und Tutoren in Lernstrategien trainiert. Ein Teil erhielt das Training mit denselben Lernstrategien über das Semester hinweg. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Training vor Studienbeginn zu negativen Effekten bezüglich der Entwicklung des Strategieeinsatzes führte. Im Verlauf des Semesters zeigten sich dann für das fortgeführte Strategietraining positive Effekte.
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