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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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* <i>Memoirs of Hadrian</i> by Maurgeritte Yourcenair

* <i>I, Claudius</i> and <i>Claudius the God</i> by [[Robert Graves]]

* <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]

* <i>[[Watchmen]]</i> by [[Alan Moore
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* <i>[[The Princess Bride]]</i> by [[William Goldman]]

* <i>[[Book of Counted Sorrows]]</i> by [[Dean R. Koontz]]

* <i>[[Works of Kilgore Trout]]</i> by [[Kurt Vonnegut]]

* <i>[[Avalon Landing]]</i> by [[Sean Connery]]  in the film ''Finding Forrester''



False Documents in Theory

* <i>Boggs</i> by Lawrence Weschler

* <i>Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder</i> by Lawrence Weschler

* <i>Simulacra and Simulation</i> by Baudrillard



Hoaxes (are they art or not?):

* "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" <br>by Alan Sokal, Spring/Summer 1996 issue of <i>Social Text</i>). See [[Sokal Affair]]

* "The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline", [[Isaac Asimov]].

* [[Ova Prima]]

* [[Salamander letter]]



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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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