Display and Disguise
©2011
Conference proceedings
X,
227 Pages
Series:
Modern French Identities, Volume 95
Summary
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.
This volume contains ten contributions in English and one in French.
Details
- Pages
- X, 227
- Publication Year
- 2011
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035301601
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034301770
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0353-0160-1
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2011 (August)
- Keywords
- notions of display and disguise in French culture Art and Disguise Mortality disclosure theatre performance, illusion and concealment travel writing and the novel
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. X, 227 pp., num. ill.
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