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Fakery, Serious fun and Cultural Change: Some Motives of the Pseudo-Translator

Glyn Pursglove

Hermeneus, Volume: 13, Pages: 151 - 176

Swansea University Author: Glyn Pursglove

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Writers have produced pseudo-translations for many different reasons, including the prospect of commercial advantage, spurious claims to authority, sheer mischief or as a means to a kind of personal creative liberation - and for many other motives too. It is striking that pseudo-translations seem to...

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ISSN: 1139-7489
Published: Valladolid Hermeneus 2011
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