Therese-Marie Meyer Book order

JRFM is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. It offers a platform for scholarly research in the broad field of religion and media, with a particular interest in audiovisual and interactive forms of communication. It engages with the challenges arising from the dynamic development of media technologies and their interaction with religion. JRFM publishes peer-reviewed articles in English that focus on visual and audiovisual media, feature film, documentary, advertising, interactive internet-based media and other forms of communication in their interdependencies with contemporary or historical forms of religion.

Since Booth’s Rhetoric of Fiction, critics have been put off author identity and its complications. This study tackles the concept of authorial identity anew, including it its consideration recent research in the social sciences and humanities, which despite the inflationary usage of „identity“ in many publication titles has so far been ignored. It attempts to grasp the border between textual „fiction“ and „reality“ at its most tangible: in cases of literary constructions of author identities and their exposure as fictional i. e. in so-called literary scandals. To facilitate comparison, the texts to which a newly forged theoretical groundwork is applied are uniformly 20th century cases and taken from Commonwealth literatures (Helen Demidenko/Darville, Sreten Bozic/B. Wongar and F. P. Greve/Grove). The Ern Malley Hoax is analysed as backdrop to differentiate such literary scandals from hoaxes.