SZONDI - Tableau & Coup de Theatre. On the Social Psychology of Diderot's Bourgeois Tragedy.pdf

Tableau and Coup de Théâtre: On the Social Psychology of Diderot's Bourgeois
Tragedy
Peter Szondi; Harvey Mendelsohn
New Literary History, Vol. 11, No. 2, Literature/History/Social Action. (Winter, 1980), pp.
323-343.
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Sat Oct 20 13:21:18 2007
Tableau and Coup de Thibtre: On the Social
Psychology of Diderot's Bourgeois Tragedy*
Peter Szondi
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conscious class conflict. It is the first which aimed at giv-
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