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