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Title Cultures of forgery : making nations, making selves / edited by Judith Ryan and Alfred Thomas.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Culture work
Culture work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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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Subject DalĂ­, Salvador, 1904-1989.
Liotard, Jean-Etienne.
Arts -- Forgeries.
Arts -- Forgeries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ryan, Judith, 1943-
Thomas, Alfred, 1958-
Other Form: Print version: Cultures of forgery. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415968313 (DLC) 2003004077 (OCoLC)51817624
ISBN 9781135458201 (electronic book)
1135458200 (electronic book)
0415968313
9780415968317
0415968321
9780415968324
9780203957776 e-book