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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.38535
- isbn: 9782848676593
- eisbn: 9782848678818
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Robert Wirth, « His Bloody Deceptive Project: the Unjustified Confessions of Roderick Macrae », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.38535
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Scottish literature has a long-established tradition of deceptive communication, deceitful editing practices and cunningly devious narration. We need only to think of James Macpherson’s Ossian, of James Hogg’s unreliable narrators in The Confessions of a Justified Sinner or Robert Louis Stevenson’s subtle multiplicity of untrustworthy perspectives in the Master of Ballantrae and in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. And there are, of course, George Douglas Brown’s notorious village-bodies of Barbie in Th...