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 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 PEtEr Lang Oxford l Bern l Berlin l Bruxelles l Frankfurt am Main l new York l Wien Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan and ruth Vorstman (eds) Display and Disguise PEtEr Lang Oxford l Bern l Berlin l Bruxelles l Frankfurt am Main l new York l Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Display and disguise / Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan and ruth Vorstman (eds). 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. 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Printed in germany 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