Display and Disguise

Ruth Vorstman (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3034301774 / ISBN 13: 9783034301770

Published by Peter Lang, 2011

Display and Disguise | Ruth Vorstman (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Peter Lang | EAN 9783034301770 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 103938157

Synopsis:

In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in literature, thought and visual culture are particularly prescient. This collection, developed from papers presented at a postgraduate conference in Oxford in September 2008, presents a coherent view of key developments in the notions of display and disguise in French culture and provides a thought-provoking contribution to contemporary criticism. The volume includes essays from both senior researchers and graduate students using close readings and theoretical approaches from the psychoanalytic to the postcolonial. These are arranged in four main sections, dealing with notions of performance, disclosure, illusion and concealment respectively. Drawing on new research in a wide range of periods, in fields including art, photography, theatre, travel writing and the novel, the authors consider the notions of display and disguise in relation to works by artists such as Molière, Flaubert, Proust, Dalí, Vinaver and Sophie Calle.
This volume contains ten contributions in English and one in French.

About the Author: Manon Mathias has recently completed her doctoral thesis on conceptions of vision in the works of George Sand at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, art-text relations, literary history and relations between literature and the natural sciences.
Maria O’Sullivan has recently completed her doctoral thesis on the critical work of Roland Barthes at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include literary theory and contemporary French fiction.
Ruth Vorstman has recently completed her doctoral thesis on female dramatists in seventeenth-century France at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include women’s writing and culture, the development of proto-feminist ideas, and the processes of adaptation and dramatization.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Display and Disguise
Publisher: Peter Lang
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu