Display and Disguise (Modern French Identities)

In a tradition more and more passionate about the visible, self-image and severe self-exposure, during which fact is consistently obscured and misrepresented via concealment and spin, the jobs demonstrate and hide play in literature, inspiration and visible tradition are really prescient. This assortment, built from papers awarded at a postgraduate convention in Oxford in September 2008, offers a coherent view of key advancements within the notions of demonstrate and hide in French tradition and offers a thought-provoking contribution to modern feedback. the amount contains essays from either senior researchers and graduate scholars utilizing shut readings and theoretical methods from the psychoanalytic to the postcolonial. those are prepared in 4 major sections, facing notions of functionality, disclosure, phantasm and concealment respectively. Drawing on new examine in a variety of sessions, in fields together with artwork, images, theatre, shuttle writing and the radical, the authors reflect on the notions of demonstrate and cover with regards to works through artists corresponding to Molière, Flaubert, Proust, Dalí, Vinaver and Sophie Calle.

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Indeed, her complex figures of bourgeois drama progress ‘d’une joie absurde à une mélancolie aussi absurde’ (103). Unravelled social masks, in the play’s final repetition, become less jarring as each embraces sentiments of openness and self-awareness. ’ (92). The underlying tensions of love af fairs, insecurities and career competition of the first two dramatic versions might still loom, yet they grow within a more relaxed and moderate environment. Ultimately, it is Sonia who reveals the two masks or ‘selves’ between which her husband balances: Henri veut que les choses arrivent et qu’elles n’arrivent pas.

Tartuf fe, the Deceiver Even if Orgon is a particularly easy target, Tartuf fe proves to be most adept at negotiating the balance between truth-telling and lying. In so doing, he profits from his situation and delights in mocking his victims. In Tartuf fe, Molière has created a character who is all too aware of his victim’s weakness and who therefore allows himself to let his mask of hypocrisy slip, knowing that it will go unnoticed by Orgon. Indeed, Orgon’s blindness and the extent to which Tartuf fe performs his ruse means that both his family and the audience are invited into the villain’s ‘virtuosic’ display.

Iphis: Embodying Duality Akin to the layered quality of these speeches, the figure of Iphis not only speaks but actually embodies a fascinating duality. Iphis’ enforced disguise is a lie that resonates an inner truth (she knows she is a woman but at certain moments she forgets this fact and is often described as desiring like a man). Indeed, in speaking of her passionate night with Iante, she admits, ‘J’oubliais quelque temps que j’étais une fille’ (V, 4). Her desire for Iante is comprehended in a particularly heteronormative framework: her lust towards another woman renders her male.

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