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Article: Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2005
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Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 275) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. 387 pp. $34-95. ISBN 0-8078-9279-3.
Christopher Braider signals that this work is a 'domestic colloquy with a body of poems I love' (p. 13), and such unreconstructed enthusiasm runs through its entirety. An effortless familiarity informs his discussions of particular plays, and, in many respects, this offering represents aeuvre de synthese whose strength resides principally in its parts. Braider breathes new life into discussions of ...