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Book SynopsisThis collection of 11 essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word forge - to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Figures Preface PART ONE: Forging Nations 1. Forging Truth in Medieval England 2. Forging a Past: The Sybilline Books and the Making of Rome 3. Forging Czechs: The Reinvention of National Identity in Bohemian Lands 4. Eclectic Fabrication: St. Petersburg and the Problem of Imperial Architectural Style 5. Forging Catalonia, or The Blankness of Dali PART TWO: Forging Selves 6. The Art of Forging Music and Musicians 7. Jean-Etienne Liotard's Envelopes of Self 8. Wrestling with Representation: Reforging Images of the Artist in the Russian Avant-garde 9. After the Death of the Author: The Fabrication of Helen Demidenko 10. Facts and Writing: Problems of Memory in Recent Memoirs 11. The Fascination of a Fake: The Hitler Diaries
