Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici, and Ernesto Virgulti.
Contributors: Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne, 1954-; Federici, Corrado, 1946-; Virgulti, Ernesto, 1951-
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature -- v. 99; Studies on themes and motifs in literature -- v. 99.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781433104220
Subjects: Deception.; Truthfulness and falsehood.; Disguise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Virtues and strategies of deception in classical literature; value: Disguising Helen : the polymorphous wife in the Odyssey / Roberto Nickel; value: The seductiveness of deception : Ovid's advice to lovers / Carol U. Merriam; value: Destabilization of reality in Renaissance and baroque trompe-l'oeil; value: More than meets the eye : Giulio Romano, Federico II Gonzaga, and the triumph of trompe-l'oeil at the Palazzo del Te in Mantu / Sally Hickson; value: Baroque poetry in Italy : deception, illusion, and epistemological shifts / John Picchione; value: Comedic irony and the art of sarcasm; value: The masks of comedy : a general theory applied to Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Vincent Francavilla; value: On the science and art of sarcasm / Albert N. Katz; value: The panorama and the panopticon : deception and the origin of perspective; value: Panoramic trompe-l'oeil : c'était tout une vie by François Bon / Catherine Parayre; value: Leaving the Island of Cyclops : practicing an "aural" genealogy within the surrealist community of fellowship / Brian Lightbody; value: Unveiling the self : disguise and the reconstruction of identity; value: Deception of the self in Zamyatin's We / Michael Berman; value: Veiling/unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sacred sand child : disguise and deception of the female protagonist / Tamara El-Hoss; value: Self-reflexive texts : uncovering artistic process beneath narrative layers; value: Between a rock and a hard place : Marie Redonnet's Candy store and Nevermore / Jeannette Gaudet; value: Matthew Barney's strategic and critical disguises : Cremaster 3 and masculine performativity / Richard Smolinski; value: Suspension of filmic disbelief : filling in the interstices between the frames; value: Famous film failures; value: or our lapse in "poetic faith" / Maurice Yacowar; value: Deception as aggression : Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou / R. Bruce Elder; value: Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled; value: Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard; value: What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro; value: Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey; value: Why must God show himself in disguise? an exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar's "The conference of the birds" / Rebekah Zwanzig; value: Deception in Chinese Buddhist thinking : reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Anna Ghiglione.