Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil: interdisciplinary perspectives

Virtues and strategies of deception in classical literature -- Disguising Helen : the polymorphous wife in the Odyssey / Roberto Nickel -- The seductiveness of deception : Ovid's advice to lovers / Carol U. Merriam -- Destabilization of reality in Renaissance and baroque trompe-l'oeil -- More than meets the eye : Giulio Romano, Federico II Gonzaga, and the triumph of trompe-l'oeil at the Palazzo del Te in Mantu / Sally Hickson -- Baroque poetry in Italy : deception, illusion, and epistemological shifts / John Picchione -- Comedic irony and the art of sarcasm -- The masks of comedy : a general theory applied to Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Vincent Francavilla -- On the science and art of sarcasm / Albert N. Katz -- The panorama and the panopticon : deception and the origin of perspective -- Panoramic trompe-l'oeil : c'était tout une vie by François Bon / Catherine Parayre -- Leaving the Island of Cyclops : practicing an "aural" genealogy within the surrealist community of fellowship / Brian Lightbody -- Unveiling the self : disguise and the reconstruction of identity -- Deception of the self in Zamyatin's We / Michael Berman -- Veiling/unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sacred sand child : disguise and deception of the female protagonist / Tamara El-Hoss -- Self-reflexive texts : uncovering artistic process beneath narrative layers -- Between a rock and a hard place : Marie Redonnet's Candy store and Nevermore / Jeannette Gaudet -- Matthew Barney's strategic and critical disguises : Cremaster 3 and masculine performativity / Richard Smolinski -- Suspension of filmic disbelief : filling in the interstices between the frames -- Famous film failures -- or our lapse in "poetic faith" / Maurice Yacowar -- Deception as aggression : Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou / R. Bruce Elder -- Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled -- Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard -- What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro -- Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey -- Why must God show himself in disguise? an exploration of Sufism within Farid Attar's "The conference of the birds" / Rebekah Zwanzig -- Deception in Chinese Buddhist thinking : reflections from the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Anna Ghiglione