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Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation - Stewart, Susan
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Crimes of Writings examines questions surrounding subjectivity, authenticity, and writing. First, Stewart examines cases of forgery, literary imposture, pornography and graffiti, and the development, from the early eighteenth century onward, of the laws articulating such crimes. Second, she uses `crimes of writing' to connote the ways in which such practices are in fact inversions or negations of cultural rules. Finally, she claims that crimes of writing are delineated by law because they specifically undermine the status ...

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Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation 1994, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822315452

Trade paperback

Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation 1991, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195066173

Hardcover