Faking Literature
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- Author: K. K. Ruthven
- Date Published: April 2001
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669658
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Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. Literature has long been under attack because of its alliance with rhetoric (the art of persuasion) rather than with logic and ethics. One way of deflecting such attacks is to demonize literary forgery: literature acquires the illusion of authenticity by being dissociated from what are represented as ersatz approximations of the real thing.
Read more- Covers a wide range of literary forgeries
- The book is very accessibly written
- An important contribution to the field of literary studies and critical theory
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"...a contentious and important book for students of the literary period credited with instituting ideas of literary originality." The Wordsworth Circle
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- Date Published: April 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669658
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.347kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Sampling the spurious
2. Framing literary forgery
3. Cultivating spuriosity
4. Faultlines of authorship
5. Fantasies of originality
6. Rhetorics of inauthenticity
7. Fake literature as critique
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
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