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Article: Christopher Braider. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama.(Book Review)
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CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Chapel Hill: Dept. of Romance Languages, U of North Carolina. 2002. 387 pp.
BRAIDER'S EXCELLENT VOLUME on seventeenth-century French drama comprises both textual analyses of specific works by Corneille, Moliere, and Racine and a celebration of their cultural, political, and dramatic impact on their audiences and readers. Although scholarship on this subject has not been wanting--Barthes, Benichou, Doubrovsky, Derrida, and others have written on this topic--Braider's meticulous approach is novel and ...
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