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...Christopher Braider [email protected] The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics . By Jessie Hock . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 234 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The focus of Jessie...

...Christopher Braider Abstract We’ve always had two Pascals, one apologetic, the other startlingly unapologetic. The unapologetic Pascal is the merciless, proto-ethnographic observer of human psychology and human social arrangements whose sardonic picture of what he calls the wretchedness of life...

...). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...

...Christopher Braider This essay explores the origins of the modern French paradigm of literary genius in the dramatic works of Pierre Corneille. Guided by a critical suggestion inscribed in an often-noted allusion to Corneille's first tragedy, Médée , near the end of Jean Racine's Phèdre...

...Christopher Braider Abstract Students of seventeenth-century French drama offer oddly truncated readings of Jean Rotrou’s Véritable Saint Genest . Fascinated by the play within a play in which the eponymous saint is converted to a Christian martyr’s faith by performing a Christian martyr’s role...

...John D. Lyons Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama . By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French...

... Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. In the introduction and six interlocking chapters of this fascinating book, Christopher Braider not only gives fresh, stimulating, and original read- ings of many major French plays but also refl ects...

... Hill. His works on the fi gures and forms of eighteenth-century literature and culture include Models of Value:Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel (1996). Reviews Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel...

...'”appeared in positions: east asia cultures critique in 2002. His book National History and the World of Nations is forthcoming. Reviews Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press...

... of California, San Diego. She has published books on orientalism, immigration,and globalization, including Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politic s (1996). Reviews Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill...

... , among other publications. Reviews Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. In the introduction and six interlocking chapters of this fascinating book...

... a protean catch-all that fails to adduce the multifaceted yet formally and historically precise phenomenon that talk of the baroque promises,” Christopher Braider asks, “If we fail to finger just what we take the baroque to be, does the term have a genuine referent?”6 An analysis of Maravall’s...

... half of the seventeenth century, see Braider 2012 : 66–120. References Abramovici Jean-Christophe . 1993 . “ ‘Sans forme et sans couleur’: Le corps dans la tragédie racinienne .” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature , no. 39 : 369 – 78 . Albanese Ralph . 1986...

... the Haitian Revolution is essentially malleable, political, and transatlantic. It happens in guerrilla theater, in which hijacked plays and possessed bodies set the stage for a tragic mode of lived history. I wish to thank Chris Braider, Paul Youngquist, and Marshall Brown for their support...

... thanks to Chris Braider and Marshall Brown for their generosity in refining my ideas about Burckhardt. Daniel Javitch, Jacques Lezra, and Jane Tylus provided encouragement and critique for a version of this essay at the 2002 Modern Language Association convention. Uncited translations are mine. I...