Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves (Culturework: a Bookseries from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)

Thomas Alfred Ryan Judith

ISBN 10: 0415968321 / ISBN 13: 9780415968324

Editore: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003

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• Titolo: Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves (Culturework: a Bookseries from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415968321
• ISBN 13: 9780415968324
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

Informazioni sull?autore

Alfred Thomas is Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Head of Department. From 1996 to 2002 he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which are Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) and Embodying Bohemia: Questions of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture (forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Judith Ryan is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Umschlag und Verwandlung (on Rilke's poetry; 1972), The Uncompleted Past: Postwar German Novels and the Third Reich (1983), The Vanishing Subject:Early Psychology and Literary Modernism (1991), and Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition (1999). She has also written articles on such authors as Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Christa Wolf, and Günter Grass. She is currently at work on a book about the relation of the contemporary novel to literary theory.