Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil : interdisciplinary perspectives /

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Imprint:New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Studies on themes and motifs in literature, 1056-3970 ; v. 99
Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 99.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9332591
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Other authors / contributors:Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne, 1954-
Federici, Corrado, 1946-
Virgulti, Ernesto, 1951-
ISBN:1453903984 (electronic bk.)
9781453903988 (electronic bk.)
9781433104220 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433104229 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other form:Original 9781433104220 1433104229
Table of Contents:
  • Virtues and strategies of deception in classical literature
  • Disguising Helen : the polymorphous wife in the Odyssey / Roberto Nickel
  • The seductiveness of deception : Ovid's advice to lovers / Carol U. Merriam
  • Destabilization of reality in Renaissance and baroque trompe-l'oeil
  • 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
  • Baroque poetry in Italy : deception, illusion, and epistemological shifts / John Picchione
  • Comedic irony and the art of sarcasm
  • The masks of comedy : a general theory applied to Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Vincent Francavilla
  • On the science and art of sarcasm / Albert N. Katz
  • The panorama and the panopticon : deception and the origin of perspective
  • Panoramic trompe-l'oeil : c'était tout une vie by François Bon / Catherine Parayre
  • Leaving the Island of Cyclops : practicing an "aural" genealogy within the surrealist community of fellowship / Brian Lightbody
  • Unveiling the self : disguise and the reconstruction of identity
  • Deception of the self in Zamyatin's We / Michael Berman
  • Veiling/unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sacred sand child : disguise and deception of the female protagonist / Tamara El-Hoss
  • Self-reflexive texts : uncovering artistic process beneath narrative layers
  • Between a rock and a hard place : Marie Redonnet's Candy store and Nevermore / Jeannette Gaudet
  • Matthew Barney's strategic and critical disguises : Cremaster 3 and masculine performativity / Richard Smolinski
  • Suspension of filmic disbelief : filling in the interstices between the frames
  • Famous film failures-- or our lapse in "poetic faith" / Maurice Yacowar
  • Deception as aggression : Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou / R. Bruce Elder
  • Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled
  • Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard
  • What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro
  • Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey
  • Why must God show himself in disguise? an exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar's "The conference of the birds" / Rebekah Zwanzig
  • Deception in Chinese Buddhist thinking : reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Anna Ghiglione.