Disguise and auctorial fraud: for a reconstitution of the empirical subject in writing
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i12p106-119Keywords:
Author, authorship, maskAbstract
Starting from recent examples of fake memoirs, “genre” that features prominently in the media, shelves and virtual sites of major bookstores, this essay discusses the problem of the authorial mask, considered in its double implication, ethics and aesthetics, in the process of literary reception.Downloads
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