Beautiful Deceptions

Author : Philipp Schweighauser
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939046
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Deceptions written by Philipp Schweighauser and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions examines how these and other artists of the era at times acknowledge art's dues to other social realms—religion, morality, politics—but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of aesthetics as "the science of sensuous cognition" and the writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller, Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it responds to shifts in social and political organization.

Author : Jill Bialosky
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092250
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deceptions written by Jill Bialosky and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill Bialosky "Bialosky urgently captures the moment in an adult's life when reflection leads to regret, and a desire to recapture the promise of one's youth becomes a kind of desperation. A vulnerable and searching tale of art, myth, and mortality." —Oprah Daily Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum's austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future. The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet.

Author : Esther Friesner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0449818659
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deception's Princess written by Esther Friesner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some lies lead to true adventure. . . . Maeve, princess of Connacht, was born with her fists clenched. And it's her spirit and courage that make Maeve her father's favorite daughter. But once he becomes the High King, powerful men begin to circle--it's easy to love the girl who brings her husband a kingdom. Yet Maeve is more than a prize to be won, and she's determined to win the right to decide her own fate. In the court's deadly game of intrigue, she uses her wits to keep her father's friends and enemies close--but not too close. When she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the son of a visiting druid, Maeve faces a brutal decision between her loyalty to her family and to her own heart. Award-winning author Esther Friesner has a remarkable gift for combining exciting myth and richly researched history. This fiery heroine's fight for independence in first-century Ireland is truly worthy of a bard's tale. Hand Deception's Princess to fans of Tamora Pierce, Shannon Hale, and Malinda Lo.

Author : Thomas Koenigs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219826
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founded in Fiction written by Thomas Koenigs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrative What is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-reading would mislead readers about reality. Founded in Fiction argues that this suspicion made early American writers especially attuned to one of fiction’s defining but often overlooked features—its fictionality. Thomas Koenigs shows how these writers explored the unique types of speculative knowledge that fiction could create as they sought to harness different varieties of fiction for a range of social and political projects. Spanning the years 1789–1861, Founded in Fiction challenges the “rise of novel” narrative that has long dominated the study of American fiction by highlighting how many of the texts that have often been considered the earliest American novels actually defined themselves in contrast to the novel. Their writers developed self-consciously extranovelistic varieties of fiction, as they attempted to reform political discourse, shape women’s behavior, reconstruct a national past, and advance social criticism. Ambitious in scope, Founded in Fiction features original discussions of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known writers, including Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, George Lippard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. By reframing the history of the novel in the United States as a history of competing varieties of fiction, Founded in Fiction shows how these fictions structured American thinking about issues ranging from national politics to gendered authority to the intimate violence of slavery.

Author : Judith Michael
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745110
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deceptions written by Judith Michael and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deceptions weaves the spellbinding tale of identical twin sisters who dared to exchange lives. A smashing New York Times bestsellers from Judith Michael. In a glittering world of lazy luxury, Sabrina reigns supreme. Invited to the most elegant parties, pursued by the most desirable men, she yearned for something more. . . . Her twin, Stephanie, is safely married with two adorable children and has everything in life that Sabrina lacks. But Stephanie longs to live like her rich and carefree sister. Changing places was to be their little secret. The game was never meant to get out of control. Neither of them dreamed how easy it would be to get lost in a maze of deceptions. . . .

Author : Morgan James
Publisher : Author Morgan James
ISBN 13 : 9781951447120
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Deception written by Morgan James and published by Author Morgan James. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is the greatest risk of all For Giuliana Capaldi, life can't get much better. As the new events coordinator for Briarleigh Lodge and Resort in the remote mountain town of Pine Ridge, Jules has a job she loves and friends she adores. When Eric proposes, it seems as if she finally has everything she's ever wanted. But her newfound happiness is threatened when she learns the shocking details of the night her father was killed-and that Eric saw everything. Torn between familial obligation and devotion to the man she loves, Jules knows she must risk everything and tell him the truth of her past. Sheriff of Pine Ridge, Eric Donahue takes care of his own. When Jules is kidnapped by the man who's been hunting her for months, he'll stop at nothing to bring her home safely-even if it means facing his demons and going back to the one place he swore never to step foot in again. As he searches for Jules, a tangled web of betrayal and deceit begins to unravel, and Eric discovers a shattering truth that could tear them apart forever... *Beautiful Deception is book two of the Deception Duet. Each book can be read as a standalone, but they are best enjoyed in order for maximum reading pleasure. Book One - Pretty Little Lies Book Two - Beautiful Deception The Deception Duet is set in the same world as the Frozen in Time trilogy, so be sure to start with Jack and Mia's story! Book One - Unrequited Love Book Two - Undeniable Love Book Three - Unbreakable Love

Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101185198
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nauti Deceptions written by Lora Leigh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Zeke Mayes is prepared for a long struggle getting Rogue Walker to drop her defenses-and give in to desire. But soon Zeke will become embroiled in a deadly game that sweeps Rogue up in its wake. And when everything is a matter of life and death, there is no reason to hold back...

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691008783
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passions and Deceptions written by Sabine Hake and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise. In a general introduction to his silent and early sound films (1914-1932) and in close readings of his comedies, Sabine Hake focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema. Exploring Lubitsch's depiction of femininity and the influence of his early German films on his entire career, she argues that his comedies represent an important outlet for dealing with sexual and cultural differences. The readings cover The Oyster Princess, The Doll, The Mountain Cat, Passion, Deception, So This Is Paris, Monte Carlo, and Trouble in Paradise, which are interpreted as part of an underlying process of negotiation between different modes of representation, narration, and spectatorship--a process that comprises the conditions of production in two different national cinemas and the ongoing changes in film technology. Drawing attention to Lubitsch's previously neglected German films, this book presents the years until 1922 as the formative period in his career.

Author : Franco V. Trivigno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108604757
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Ion written by Franco V. Trivigno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element defends an interpretation of Plato's Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry. The dialogue countenances and rejects two models of poetic reception, the expertise model and the inspiration model, both of which make the audience entirely passive in relation to poetry; and it presents the character of Ion as a comedic figure, a self-ignorant fool whose foolishness is a function of his passive relation to Homer. In the end, this Element argues that, for Plato, critical engagement is the proper way for audiences to treat poetry. This view holds open the possibility that poetry may express some truths without thereby endorsing the idea that poets are experts who have authoritative knowledge.

Author : Narain D. Batra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442225882
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation written by Narain D. Batra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create constant innovations. When confronted with a problem, an innovative mind struggles and brings forth something distinctive--new ideas, new inventions, and new programs based on unconventional approaches to solve the problem. But this can be done only if the culture creates large breathing spaces by leaving people alone, not as a matter of state generosity but as something fundamental in being an American. Consequently, the Constitutional mandate of “Congress shall make no law…” has encouraged fearless speech, unrestrained thought, and endless experimentation leading to newer developments in science, technology, the arts, and not least socio-political relations. Most of all, the First Freedoms liberate the mind from irrational fears and encourage an environment of divergent thinking, non-conformity, and resistance to a collective mindset. The First Freedoms encourage Americans to be iconoclastic, to be creatively crazy, to be impure, thus, enabling them to mix and re-mix ideas to design new technologies and cultural forms and platforms, anything from experimental social relations and big data explorations to electing our first black president.