Colleagues may be interested in this new volume:
Playing False ? Representations of Betrayal, edited by Kristina
Mendicino and Betiel Wasihun. Oxford: Peter Lang 2013.
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 Dössekker alias Binjamin Wilkomirski and
Fassbinder take centre stage in these diverse examinations of betrayal.
Contributors: Joachim Harst, Kristina Mendicino, Eric Dodson-Robinson,
Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Ritchie Robertson, Betiel Wasihun, Bernd
Blaschke, Anne Julia Fett, Anna Henke, Rebecca Haubrich, Gillian
Granville Bentley, Felisa Baynes-Ross.
More details at:
http://www.peterlang.com?430867
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Dr Betiel Wasihun
Montgomery-DAAD Fellow
Lincoln College
Oxford OX1 3DR
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