Mark Osteen 
Fake It [EPUB ebook] 
Fictions of Forgery

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How many layers of artifice can one artwork contain? How does forgery unsettle our notions of originality and creativity? Looking at both the literary and art worlds, Fake It investigates a set of fictional forgeries and hoaxes alongside their real-life inspirations and parallels. Mark Osteen shows how any forgery or hoax is only as good as its authenticating story—and demonstrates how forgeries foster fresh authorial identities while being deeply intertextual and frequently quite original.

From fakes of the late eighteenth century, such as Thomas Chatterton’s Rowley poems and the notorious ‘Shakespearean’ documents fabricated by William-Henry Ireland, to hoaxes of the modern period, such as Clifford Irving’s fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, the infamous Ern Malley forgeries, and the audacious authorial masquerades of Percival Everett, Osteen lays bare provocative truths about the conflicts between aesthetic and economic value. In doing so he illuminates the process of artistic creation, which emerges as collaborative and imitative rather than individual and inspired, revealing that authorship is, to some degree, always forged.

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Acknowledgments

Prologue: Genuine Articles

1. Thomas Chatterton’s Ghosts

2. ‘What King Forged I?’: Fathers, Frauds, and the Works of William Fakespeare

3. Hideous Progeny: Forgery, Frankenstein, and Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake

4. Fuck It: Percival Everett’s Fake Book

5. Original Sins: Painting the Perfect Fake in The Recognitions

6. But Is It Art?: Orson Welles’s Cubist Portrait of the Forger in F for Fake

7. Misrecognizing Harry: The Blazing World’s Hermaphroditic Polyphony

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

A propos de l’auteur


Mark Osteen, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Loyola University Maryland, is author of Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 370 ● ISBN 9780813946283 ● Taille du fichier 6.2 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Virginia Press ● Lieu Charlottesville ● Pays US ● Publié 2021 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7814319 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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