Cultures of forgery : making nations, making selves / edited by Judith Ryan and Alfred Thomas.
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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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Forging truth in Medieval England
- Forging a past: the Sibylline books and the making of Rome
- Forging Czechs: the reinvention of national identity in the Bohemian lands
- Eclectic fabrication: St. Petersburg and the problem of Imperial architectural style
- The blankness of Dali, or forging Catalonia
- The art of forging music and musicians: of lighthearted musicologists, ambitious performers, narrow-minded brothers, and creative aristocrats
- Jean-Etienne Liotard's envelopes of self
- Wrestling with representation: reforging images of the artist and art in the Russian avant-garde
- After the "death of the author": the fabrication of Helen Demidenko
- Facts, writing, and problems of memory in memoir: the Wilkomirski case
- The fascination of a fake: the Hitler diaries.