Molière's metatextual maneuvers

Molière's Metatextual
Maneuvers

Nothing less than a scholarly « tour de force, » this cutting-edge essay artfully unmasks aesthetic preoccupations lurking beneath the surface of Molière's most self-reflexive and problematic comedies. Subtextual operations forefront and shed new light on longstanding interpretive dilemmas and exegetical conundrums. A meta-discursive narrative weaves itself around and throughout the « poetic » artifact, much like the glimmers of a keenly-focused spotlight cast upon itself.