Article: Paul Claudel's L'Annonce faite a Marie: A process of visionary revision.

In his essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', Walter Benjamin notes that 'the history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form'. (1) The turn of the twentieth century in France might well be seen as one of these critical epochs, given the tardiness of French dramatists to respond to the demand for reform and reevaluation implicit in 'l'aventure decorative moderne'. (2) During the early decades of the century, the drive to discover and celebrate 'la specificite artistique du theatre' (Veinstein, p. 66) ...

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