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'Emile' ou les figures de la fiction. By LAURENCE MALL (SVEC 2002:04) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. x+334 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0793-4.
In a footnote at one point in her long study of Rousseau's Emile, Laurence Mall briefly criticizes the approach of another scholar. The reader is likely to pause over her remark, for in the abundant references to her predecessors, Mall not only acknowledges any debts scrupulously, but is generous in all her judgements. In this exceptional case, the key to her strictures is that the author concerned, Josue Harari, adopted, as she suggests, 'une prise ou perspective unique' (p....
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