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

ISBN-13: 9780367879945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.