Textual deceptions : false memoirs and literary hoaxes in the contemporary era /

Textual Deceptions considers a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first century literary works in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vice, Sue, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Autobiography.
Autobiographies as Topic
Faux et supercheries littéraires.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Autobiography
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Literarische Fälschung
Streich > Scherz
Literatur
Autobiografische Literatur
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : between text and author
  • Fiction and memory in misery memoirs
  • Gender hoaxing : Rahila Khan, Anthony Godby Johnson and J.T. LeRoy
  • Indigenous envy : Wanda Koolmatrie and Nasdijj
  • 'Falsifying downward' : Margaret B. Jones and James Frey
  • Self-advertising hoaxes : Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë
  • False and embellished Holocaust testimony.

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