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  • Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth
    Christopher Braider
    In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the ’baroque’. For example, Annibale Carracci’s portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static representations that depict an emblematic demigod who has already rejected the f...
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  • Refiguring the Real
    Christopher Braider
    In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture-particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Because critics have conventionally explained visual images in terms of verbal texts (Scripture, her...
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  • Indiscernible Counterparts
    Christopher Braider
    While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic perfection, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties: the canny excavation of its resources as the site, instrument, and product of a concerted act of writing. But this self-conscious literariness also bears witness to the era’s corollary awareness of the ...
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