Playing False : Representations of Betrayal.
Title:
Playing False : Representations of Betrayal.
Author:
Mendicino, Kristina.
ISBN:
9783035305296
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Series:
Cultural History and Literary Imagination ; v.20
Cultural History and Literary Imagination
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Kristina Mendicino and Betiel Wasihun Introduction -- Part I States of Treason - Theology and Politics -- Joachim Harst Perversions of Judas. Betrayal in 'Baroque' Literature: Borges and Gryphius -- Kristina Mendicino Grasping Spirit: Betrayal in Hegel's Christology -- Eric Dodson-Robinson 'By a Brother's Hand': Betrayal and Brotherhood in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sen -- Horst-Jürgen Gerigk Notes towards a Definition of Betrayal: Koestler, Hamsun, Pound and the Doppe -- Part II Enacting Betrayal - Ethical Stages -- Ritchie Robertson Schiller, Kant, Machiavelli and the Ethics of Betrayal -- Betiel Wasihun Eth(n)ical Betrayal: Kleist's 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' and Roth's The Human Sta -- Bernd Blaschke Betrayals and Their Affects in Wilkomirski's Fake Holocaust Memoirs Bruchstücke -- Anne Julia Fett Aesthetic Manifestations of (Self-)Betrayal in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In einem J -- Part III Ambiguous Characters - Scripted Masks -- Anna Henke Sound and Unsound Advice: Unveiling Walter Benjamin's Umlaut -- Rebecca Haubrich Deceptive Letters: The Structure of Substitution and Exchange in Heinrich von Klei -- Gillian Granville Bentley An Ancient Othello in Chariton's Callirhoe -- Felisa Baynes-Ross Ambages and Double Visages: Betrayal in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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 Doessekker alias Binjamin Wilkomirski and Fassbinder take centre stage in these diverse examinations of betrayal.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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