Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. Literature has long been under attack because of its alliance with rhetoric (the art of persuasion) rather than with logic and ethics. One way of deflecting such attacks is to demonize literary forgery: literature acquires the illusion of authenticity by being dissociated from what are represented as ersatz approximations of the real thing.
Danish Fairy Tales by Sven Grundtvig translated by J. Grant Cramer (Rare Book Collection)
Fourteen traditional Danish tales of wizardry, witchery, dark forests, remote kingdoms, princesses, and wicked stepmothers.
These folk-tales, and many more, were originally collected by Svendt Grundtvig, a Danish professorand philologist. He found that throughout all the country districts, men and women were telling stories and reciting ballads that they had learned from their grandmothers, who, in their turn, had heard them from crooners of old songs, and tellers of old tales. Professor Grundtvig realized that these echoes of an earlier time were precious; that, if they were not perpetuated in written form, they would be lost. It was a labour of love on his part to collect these tales; a labor that lasted over twenty years, and that enlisted the aid of many of his countrymen. Grundtvig says that he has kept the simplicity and artlessness of the oral tradition; and that, in the case of varying versions from different parts of the country, he has taken the purer and more complete form, but has always preserved the epic unity.
Irish Fairy Tales by Edmund Leamy (Rare Book Collection)
In writing these stories, Edmund Leamy turned to the Gaelic past to give something to the Irish people which would implant in them a love for the beauty and dignity of their country's traditions. The book features such tales as "Princess Finola and the Dwarf" and "The Fairy Tree of Dooros".
More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skillfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective.
The Reading and writing resource books series is a flexible photocopiable resource for teachers.
At each level, you can use the material alongside the natural English student's book as extra topic-related skills work or on its own as a dip-in resource. The lessons are based around topical, authentic texts and practise a range of reading and writing skills ideal for students who are on general English courses, doing academic studies, or working.
