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020			_a9780521669658
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082			_a809 _bRUT
100			_aRuthven, K.K.
245			_aFaking literature
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c©2001.
300			_ax, 237 p.:
500			_aIncludes Bibliography & Index.
505			_a1. 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.
520			_aLiterary 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.
650			_aEnglish literature.
650			_aLiterature.
650			_aEnglish literature -- Theory, etc.
650			_aEnglish.
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