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Originally Posted by NatCh
Not entirely on point, but related: I've always gotten annoyed when the author's name is printed in larger type than the title of the book. Always seemed a bit backward to me.  |
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We should not forget that the concept of authorship is a modern one. In the Middle Ages most literature had no known author, and this is because the roll of the author was not important in comparison to today. But even for this early literature, we would like to know who wrote it - but the attribution of some works to some authors is sometimes questionable.
But of course, for contemporary literature I also prefer to know the true author's name
