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This fascinating book describes how an English professor became a detective, sort of. Don Foster still teaches literature at Vassar College, but he's recognized as an expert in attributional theory--the idea that everybody has literary fingerprints, or, as he puts it, "no two individuals write exactly the same way, using the same words in the same comb ... review details
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Whoops! Foster blows it on Bard....
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Oh, no! Foster's most famous case of literary detective work, attributing The Elegy to Shakespeare instead of John Ford, has proved to be a bone-headed mistake that Foster now acknowledges (see "Literary Sleuth Absolves Bard of a Bad Poem" - TheFrontPage
New York Observer, June 24, 2002, Ron Rosenbaum). All the patronizing things Foster says in Author Unknown about people who were so sure he was wrong make him look pretty silly now. Those old fashioned scholars of Renaissance literature were right after all - and the computer maven "Literary Detective" now appears more like Clousseau than Sherlock Holmes. The book is still a fun read, though, and fun for the reader careful not to take the Sleuth's conclusions too seriously. |
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