Who Wrote That?: Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov
Author:   Donald Ostrowski
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501750823


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 June 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
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Author:   Donald Ostrowski
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Northern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501750823


ISBN 10:   1501750828
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 June 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1. Did Moses Write the Pentateuch? 2. Who Wrote the Analects? 3. Who Wrote the Secret Gospel of Mark? 4. Did Abelard and Heloise Write the Letters Attributed to Them? 5. Who Wrote the Compendium of Chronicles (Jami al- Tawarik) and the Collection of Letters Attributed to Rashid al- Din 6. Who Wrote Shakespeare? 7. Who Wrote the Works Attributed to Prince Andrei Kurbskii? 8. How Inauthentic Was James Macpherson's ""Translation"" of Ossian? 9. Did Mikhail Sholokhov Write The Quiet Don? Afterword: Lessons Learned

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... a rigorous and fascinating investigation of alleged authors from Moses and Confucius to Abelard and Heloise, Shakespeare and an obscure Bolshevik journalist, among others. Along the way, Ostrowski discusses the multitude of factors and circumstances, as many as twenty, that come into play in the process of author attribution. * The Oxfordian *


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Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Science and Lecturer in History at Harvard University's Extension School. He is the author of more than 150 publications including his edition of The Pověst vremennykh lět [Tale of Bygone Years], which received the Early Slavic Studies Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

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