Faking Literature
Faking Literature by K. K. Ruthven, published by Cambridge University Press on April 30, 2001, is a thought-provoking exploration of literary forgeries and their implications. This edition spans 237 pages and is presented in English. The book examines how the creation of literary forgeries challenges the perceived authenticity of literature, suggesting that these forgeries expose the inherent spuriousness of literary works themselves.
Readers will find a critical analysis of the relationship between literature and rhetoric, as well as the societal tendency to vilify literary forgery. Ruthven delves into the complexities of how literature is often defended against critiques by distancing itself from what are deemed inferior imitations. This work engages with themes of literary criticism and semiotics, prompting reflection on the nature of authenticity in literary creation.
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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 demonise literary forgery: literature acquires the illusion of authenticity by being dissociated from what are represented as ersatz approximations of the real thing.
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