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Modern French Identities 95 Modern French Identities
95
In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme M Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan
self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented a
th and Ruth Vorstman (eds)
through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in i
a
litera ture, thought and visual culture are particularly prescient. This collec- s
,
tion, developed from papers presented at a postgraduate conference in O
Oxford in September 2008, presents a coherent view of key developm ents ’S
u Display and
in the notions of display and disguise in French culture and pro vides a l
l
i
thought-provoking contribution to contemporary criticism. The volume v
a
includes essays from both senior researchers and graduate students using n Disguise
close readings and theoretical approaches from the psycho analytic to a
n
the postcolonial. These are arranged in four main sections, dealing with d
notions of performance, disclosure, illusion and concealment respectivel y. V
o
Drawing on new research in a wide range of periods, in fields including r
s
art, photography, theatre, travel writing and the novel, the authors consider tm
the notions of display and disguise in relation to works by artists such a
n
as Molière, Flaubert, Proust, Dalí, Vinaver and Sophie Calle.
(
e
d
This volume contains ten contributions in English and one in French. s)
•
D
i
s
Manon Mathias has recently completed her doctoral thesis on conceptions p
l
of vision in the works of George Sand at the University of Oxford. Her a
y
research focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, art–text relations, literary
a
history and relations between literature and the natural sciences. n
d
D
Maria O’Sullivan has recently completed her doctoral thesis on the critical i
s
work of Roland Barthes at the University of Oxford. Her research interests g
u g
include literary theory and contemporary French fiction. i
s n
e
a
Ruth Vorstman has recently completed her doctoral thesis on female L
dramatists in seventeenth-century France at the University of Oxford.
Her research interests include women’s writing and culture, the r
e
development of proto-feminist ideas, and the processes of adaptation
t
and dramatization. e
P
www.peterlang.com
Display and Disguise
Modern French Identities
Edited by Peter Collier
Volume 95
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Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan
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Display and Disguise
PEtEr Lang
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Display and disguise / Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan and ruth
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p. cm. -- (Modern French identities ; 95)
Contributions in English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBn 978-3-0343-0177-0 (alk. paper)
1. French literature--History and criticism. 2. Disguise in
literature. I. Mathias, Manon, 1984- II. O’Sullivan, Maria, 1982- III.
Vorstman, ruth g., 1983-
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan and Ruth Vorstman
Introduction 1
Part I Disguise on Display: The Masked Self in Performance 11
Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Concealing and Revealing the Truth:
A Study of Lying in Tartuf fe, La Célimène and Iphis et Iante 13
Elizabeth Lindley
Disguises and Social Masks in Yasmina Reza’s
Trois versions de la vie and Dieu du carnage 31
Catherine Burke
‘Be it so; what shall I tell you first? What shall I leave for last?’
Duplicity and Intrigue in Homer’s Odyssey and Proust’s
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu 49
Part II Displays of Dif ference Through Art and Illustration 65
Vincent Bruyère
Postcolonial Display/Early Modern Disguise:
Looking Back at the Savage 67
vi
Nathalie Ferrand
Quand le roman se cache derrière une image:
fiction et illustration au XVIIIe siècle 87
Klemens James
Dali, Surrealism and the Problem of Postmodern Camp 107
Part III Authenticity in Times of Change: Writers in Disguise 127
Kate Rees
Machines, Modernity and Masquerades in Flaubert’s Salammbô 129
Christine Knoop
Dangerous Disguise: An Approach to the Relation Between
Kitsch and the Arts 145
Part IV Responses to Twenty-First-Century Life:
Disguising Reality 163
Emma Wilson
Mortality, Art and Disguise:
On Sophie Calle’s Pas pu saisir la mort (2007) 165
Clare Finburgh
The Secret is in the Surface: Media Representation
of 9/11 and Michel Vinaver’s 11 September 2001 183
vii
Olga Smith
Hoaxer’s Voyage: Pierre Huyghe’s A Journey that wasn’t 205
Index 223
