Continuum, Volume 2AMS Press, 1990 - French literature |
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In Corneille's plays , the careful partition of the global script among the various dramatis personae conveys not just ... are extreme examples of this basic practice , but it marks to a lesser degree almost every play of the corpus .
In Corneille's plays , the careful partition of the global script among the various dramatis personae conveys not just ... are extreme examples of this basic practice , but it marks to a lesser degree almost every play of the corpus .
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( 72 ) Postponement , deferral , avoiding completion too soon - Corneille sketches an aesthetic of temporal form in which what happens is , at least provisionally , left open to emphasize the spectator's experience of the play as a ...
( 72 ) Postponement , deferral , avoiding completion too soon - Corneille sketches an aesthetic of temporal form in which what happens is , at least provisionally , left open to emphasize the spectator's experience of the play as a ...
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Of all his plays , this one has the fewest number of main characters , three . ... The enterprise of writing the play , " faire quelque chose de rien " ( 325 ) , even looks forward to Benjamin Constant's Adolphe : this is Racine's folie ...
Of all his plays , this one has the fewest number of main characters , three . ... The enterprise of writing the play , " faire quelque chose de rien " ( 325 ) , even looks forward to Benjamin Constant's Adolphe : this is Racine's folie ...
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