Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era

by Sue Vice

Argues that literary deceptions and false memoirs have particular cultural value and significance
Textual Deceptions considers a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first century literary works in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly autobiographical novels that are in fact thoroughly fictional, as well as bogus authorial personae,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748675558
• ISBN13: 9780748675555
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"