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. . . provides fresh, insightful, stimulating, and useful new views of well-known and important early modern French texts, and it also provides tools for reading literary texts of any period and of any national culture. The clear and well-exemplified explanation of the differences between theatrical and narrative cognition makes a contribution to literary studies at all levels. Advanced researchers will find that Goodkin gives them new tools and helps solve mysteries that remain in classical texts, while even students in an introductory course on literary analysis could benefit from reading several chapters of this lucid book. --Modern Language Review

. . . provides fresh, insightful, stimulating, and useful new views of well-known and important early modern French texts, and it also provides tools for reading literary texts of any period and of any national culture. The clear and well-exemplified explanation of the differences between theatrical and narrative cognition makes a contribution to literary studies at all levels. Advanced researchers will find that Goodkin gives them new tools and helps solve mysteries that remain in classical texts, while even students in an introductory course on literary analysis could benefit from reading several chapters of this lucid book. --Modern Language Review

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Richard E. Goodkin is a professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. His books include Birth Marks: The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine (2000) and Les magnifiques mensonges de Madeleine Béjart (2013), a historical novel about the mistress and collaborator of Molière.

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