Playing false : representations of betrayal
Betrayal in literature Deception in literature LITERARY CRITICISM TRAVEL Conference proceedings sähkökirjat
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2013
EISBN 9781306147231
Part I. States of treason.
theology and politics.
part II. Enacting betrayal.
ethical stages.
part III. Ambiguous characters.
scripted masks.
Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon - from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book gathers essays by scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, classics, English literature, German studies and film studies to develop a fresh dialogue on betrayal as a problem that, above all, concerns representation. In contradistinction to approaches that privilege a notion of betrayal as a political or personal event, the working premise of this book is that all betrayals presuppose representation.
theology and politics.
part II. Enacting betrayal.
ethical stages.
part III. Ambiguous characters.
scripted masks.
Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon - from antiquity to the present, from the realm of politics to the most personal relationships. This book gathers essays by scholars from the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, classics, English literature, German studies and film studies to develop a fresh dialogue on betrayal as a problem that, above all, concerns representation. In contradistinction to approaches that privilege a notion of betrayal as a political or personal event, the working premise of this book is that all betrayals presuppose representation.
