Playing False : Representations of Betrayal
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cultural History & Literary Imagination
ISBN-10
3034308671
ISBN-13
9783034308670
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2013
Print length
348 Pages
Weight
510 grams
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22.80 x 25.60 x 2.10 cms
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Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: plays & playwrightsPhilosophy: aesthetics
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This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the concept of betrayal as a representational strategy that emerges in texts throughout the Western tradition. Theological, political, ethical and theatrical dimensions of betrayal are examined in a diverse selection of texts from Chariton to Fassbinder.
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 representational strategies.
What are the conditions, structures, masks and moves that allow one to play false? This question is posed with special attention to the theological, political, ethical and theatrical dimensions of betrayal, as they emerge in specific texts throughout the Western tradition. Works by Chariton, Seneca, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Kleist, Hamsun, Pound, Benjamin, Borges, Koestler, Roth, Bruno Dössekker alias Binjamin Wilkomirski and Fassbinder take centre stage in these diverse examinations of betrayal.
What are the conditions, structures, masks and moves that allow one to play false? This question is posed with special attention to the theological, political, ethical and theatrical dimensions of betrayal, as they emerge in specific texts throughout the Western tradition. Works by Chariton, Seneca, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Kleist, Hamsun, Pound, Benjamin, Borges, Koestler, Roth, Bruno Dössekker alias Binjamin Wilkomirski and Fassbinder take centre stage in these diverse examinations of betrayal.
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