Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves by Judith Ryan (English) Pape

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This collection of 11 essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge" - to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

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This collection of eleven essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other. These notable scholars take on a broad range of topics, including the falsified Hitler diaries, the creation of national identity in Bohemia, and Jean-Etienne Liotard's fraudulent "Turkish" identity. Each essay asks how forgery-at once the work of a criminal and a "master"-has shaped modern culture and challenged our understandings of authorship and value. Julie Buckler, Derek Pearsall, Sarolta Takacs, Alfred Thomas, Brad Epps, Reinhold Brinkmann, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, John Malmstad, Judith Ryan, Susan Suleiman, Eric Rentschler

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In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

Author Biography

Alfred Thomas is Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Head of Department. From 1996 to 2002 he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which are Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) and Embodying Bohemia: Questions of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture (forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Judith Ryan is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Umschlag und Verwandlung (on Rilke's poetry; 1972), The Uncompleted Past: Postwar German Novels and the Third Reich (1983), The Vanishing Subject:Early Psychology and Literary Modernism (1991), and Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition (1999). She has also written articles on such authors as Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Christa Wolf, and Günter Grass. She is currently at work on a book about the relation of the contemporary novel to literary theory.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Figures Preface PART ONE: Forging Nations 1. Forging Truth in Medieval England 2. Forging a Past: The Sybilline Books and the Making of Rome 3. Forging Czechs: The Reinvention of National Identity in Bohemian Lands 4. Eclectic Fabrication: St. Petersburg and the Problem of Imperial Architectural Style 5. Forging Catalonia, or The Blankness of Dali PART TWO: Forging Selves 6. The Art of Forging Music and Musicians 7. Jean-Etienne Liotard's Envelopes of Self 8. Wrestling with Representation: Reforging Images of the Artist in the Russian Avant-garde 9. After the Death of the Author: The Fabrication of Helen Demidenko 10. Facts and Writing: Problems of Memory in Recent Memoirs 11. The Fascination of a Fake: The Hitler Diaries

Details ISBN0415968321 Author Alfred Thomas Short Title CULTURES OF FORGERY Language English ISBN-10 0415968321 ISBN-13 9780415968324 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 364.163 Illustrations Yes Edition 1st Edited by Alfred Thomas Birth 1958 Qualifications S.J Affiliation Harvard University Subtitle Making Nations, Making Selves DOI 10.1604/9780415968324 AU Release Date 2003-08-14 NZ Release Date 2003-08-14 US Release Date 2003-08-14 UK Release Date 2003-08-14 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 242 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-08-14 Alternative 9780415968317 Audience General We've got this

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