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Learning From Lying
Paradoxes Of The Literary Mystification
Julia Abramson
Writers who mystify operate through paradox. Since the eighteenth century, when the term was coined in French, the cycle of temporarily taking in a reader by means of a deceptive text, then deliberately uncovering the fake, has enacted a drama of Enlightenment. Obfuscation reveals trickery, in an exercise that simultaneously embodies the ideals of Enlightenment and interrogates their limits. In
Learning from Lying
the lens of mystification reveals a singular literary history. Analyses of works by Diderot, Mérimée, and Hildesheimer follow out the cosmopolitan roots of the genre in the Republic of Letters and show how it theorizes literature through practical experiment. For textual imitation revealed lays bare the necessary collusion between reader and writer that allows literature to exist as such. By clearly situating mystification on the continuum that ranges from fiction to forgery,
Learning from Lying
provides a timely intervention in current debates about the study of fakes.
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University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 195 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-269-9 • Hardback • September 2005 •
$96.00
• (£74.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
Julia Abramson<
is assistant professor of French at the University of Oklahoma.
Learning From Lying
Paradoxes Of The Literary Mystification
Hardback
$96.00
Summary
Summary
Writers who mystify operate through paradox. Since the eighteenth century, when the term was coined in French, the cycle of temporarily taking in a reader by means of a deceptive text, then deliberately uncovering the fake, has enacted a drama of Enlightenment. Obfuscation reveals trickery, in an exercise that simultaneously embodies the ideals of Enlightenment and interrogates their limits. In
Learning from Lying
the lens of mystification reveals a singular literary history. Analyses of works by Diderot, Mérimée, and Hildesheimer follow out the cosmopolitan roots of the genre in the Republic of Letters and show how it theorizes literature through practical experiment. For textual imitation revealed lays bare the necessary collusion between reader and writer that allows literature to exist as such. By clearly situating mystification on the continuum that ranges from fiction to forgery,
Learning from Lying
provides a timely intervention in current debates about the study of fakes.
Details
Details
University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 195 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-269-9 • Hardback • September 2005 •
$96.00
• (£74.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
Author
Author
Julia Abramson<
is assistant professor of French at the University of Oklahoma.
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