English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

The essays collected in this volume were selected from papers presented at a conference organized at the National University of Ireland, Galway in April 2004, on the subject of deceptive relationships in French and Francophone literature and visual culture. The collection examines specific representations and enactments of deception in French art and literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Divided into three thematic sections, the book begins by focusing on the role of distortion in art and literature, goes on to tackle the representation and practice of manipulation in certain works, and finally turns to the function of substitution in the construction and reception of artful deceptions.
Les articles qui figurent dans ce recueil sont tires des communications presentees lors d'un colloque organise a l'Universite nationale d'Irlande a Galway en avril 2004, sur le theme de la tromperie dans la litterature et la culture visuelle francaises ou francophones. Le recueil se penche sur de nombreuses representations et pratiques particulieres de la mystification depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'a nos jours. Divise en trois sections thematiques, le livre commence par des analyses du statut de la deformation dans l'art et la litterature, pour aborder ensuite la maniere dont la manipulation est mise en oeuvre dans et par certaines oeuvres. Enfin il est question du fonctionnement de la substitution dans la construction et la reception des supercheries.

Kneale, Matthew: - Matthew Kneale was born in London in 1960, the son and grandson of writers. He studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has written five novels, including English Passengers, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and two nonfiction books. For the last fifteen years he has lived in Rome with his wife and two children. Visit him at MatthewKneale.net.

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ISBN 13	9780385497442
ISBN 10	038549744X
Title	English Passengers
Author	Matthew Kneale
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2001-01-16
Number of pages	464
Prizes	Winner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults., Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year 2000, Short-listed for Booker Prize 2000
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