Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification

by Julia Abramson

Writers who mystify operate through paradox. Since the eighteenth century, when the term was coined in French, the cycle of temporarily taking in a reader by means of a deceptive text, then deliberately uncovering the fake, has enacted a drama of Enlightenment. Obfuscation reveals trickery, in an exercise that simultaneously embodies the ideals of Enlightenment and interrogates their limits. In Learning from Lying the lens of mystification...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492696
• ISBN13: 9781611492699
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 195 Pages