Author | : Sue Vice |
File Size | : 48,5 Mb |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 08 October 2014 |
ISBN | : 9780748675562 |
Pages | : 224 pages |
Textual Deceptions by Sue Vice Book PDF Summary
This title considers a wide range of 20th and 21st century literary works that feature literary deceptions and false memories and 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 fictional, as well as bogus authorial personae, it discusses whether it is possible to judge veracity by means of textual clues alone. It also argues that literary deceptions and false memoirs have particular cultural value and significance.