Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous

ISBN: 9780805063578

出版社: Henry Holt & Company

出版年: 2001-1-2

页数: 318

定价: $26.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In Author Unknown, Don Foster reveals a startling fact: since no two people use language in precisely the same way, our identities are encoded in our own language, a kind of literary DNA. Combining traditional scholarship with modern technology, Foster has discovered how to unlock that code and, in the process, has invented an entire field of investigation - literary forensics - by which it becomes possible to catch anonymous authors as they betray their identities with their own words. As entertaining as it is eye-opening, Author Unknown shows us how Don Foster uses his unusual methods to search out the hidden identities behind anonymous documents of all kinds. Anyone who reads this remarkable book will find it impossible to read - or write - in the same way as before.