Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde unmasks the process whereby characters in seventeenth-century French comedy construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. Analyzing different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the aut

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367879945
• ISBN-10: 0367879948
• Artikelnr.: 58440564

Autorenporträt

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde completed a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, United Kingdom and is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Perspectives on Lying
1.1 Perspectives
1.2 The Figure of the Liar on Stage
1.3 Deception on Stage
2. Fantastical Lies: the Figure of the Braggart Soldier
3. Moliere's Dom Juan: the Evolution of the Character
4. The Parasitical Nature of Lying: a Study of Le Tartuffe
5. Mendacity and Metamorphosis: the Case of Benserade's Iphis et Iante
Conclusion