Faking Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521660150)

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.

Author: K. K. Ruthven
ISBN-10: 0521660157
ISBN-13: 9780521660150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2001
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 511