Faking literature
Ruthven, K.K.
Faking literature - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2001. - x, 237 p.:
Includes Bibliography & Index.
1. Sampling the spurious.--
2. Framing literary forgery.--
3. Cultivating spuriosity.--
4. Fault-lines of authorship.--
5. Fantasies of originality.--
6. Rhetorics of authenticity.--
7. Fake literature as critique.
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.
9780521669658 0521669650
English literature.
Literature.
English literature -- Theory, etc.
English.
809 / RUT
Faking literature - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2001. - x, 237 p.:
Includes Bibliography & Index.
1. Sampling the spurious.--
2. Framing literary forgery.--
3. Cultivating spuriosity.--
4. Fault-lines of authorship.--
5. Fantasies of originality.--
6. Rhetorics of authenticity.--
7. Fake literature as critique.
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.
9780521669658 0521669650
English literature.
Literature.
English literature -- Theory, etc.
English.
809 / RUT