Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation
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Book Overview
From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar; the production of "fakelore"; the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the imposture of Thomas Chatterton;...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822315459
ISBN13:9780822315452
Release Date:October 1994
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.3" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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yes, it's smart
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Ok, so the prose is dense, and she's read more books than you, and sometimes there's a bit of untranslated French (a pet peeve, I'll admit). Still, this is brilliant stuff. The chapter on graffiti is a classic-- the best theoretical treatement of graffiti available, and worth the price of the book by itself.
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