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False document
A <b>false document</b> is a literary (or artistic) device which attempts to create in the reader (viewer, audience, etc) a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief. That is, it wants to fool the audience briefly into thinking that what is being presented is actually a fact.



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<b> Sources: or, False Documents as a field of study</b><p>

False documents were recently the topic of a graduate level seminar in the humanities at the [[University of Michigan]]. The seminar was taught by Professor Eileen Pollack. While the form has existed for at least two  hundred years, focused study is fairly recent.

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see: [[literature]], [[frame tale]], [[conspiracy theory]], [[urban legend]]
, [[fictional guidebook]]

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