Editing Found manuscript (section)

{{Short description|Literary technique}}
A '''found manuscript''' (also, '''discovered manuscript<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Sawczuk |first=Tomasz |date=2020 |title=Taking Horror as You Find It: From Found Manuscripts to Found Footage Aesthetics |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=916938 |journal=Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture |language=English |issue=10 |pages=223–235 |doi=10.18778/2083-2931.10.14 |issn=2083-2931 |doi-access=free |archive-date=2025-03-13 |access-date=2025-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250313163145/https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=916938 |url-status=live |hdl=11320/12958 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>''', '''imaginary manuscript''',<ref name=":2" /> '''pseudobiblia<ref name=":4">{{cite magazine |last1=De Camp |first1=L. Sprague |date=29 March 1947 |title=The Unwritten Classics |magazine=Saturday Review of Literature |issn=0147-5932 |id={{ProQuest|2152155643}} }}</ref>'''<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Sorensen |first=Leif |date=2010 |title=A Weird Modernist Archive: Pulp Fiction, Pseudobiblia, H. P. Lovecraft |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/406818/summary |journal=Modernism/Modernity |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=501–522 |doi=10.1353/mod.2010.0007 |issn=1080-6601|url-access=subscription }}</ref>) refers to a [[literary trope]] in which a work of literature makes a reference to another work, claimed to exist but in fact being fictitious, and which usually is an important plot element; or claims to be such a work; or claims to be based on it.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Peck |first=Aaron |date=October 9, 2012 |title=Found Manuscripts |url=https://www.bookforum.com/syllabi/found-manuscripts-10281 |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Bookforum |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Dicuirci |first=Lindsay |date=2021 |title=Found among the Papers: Fictions of Textual Discovery in Early America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27081957 |journal=Early American Literature |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=809–844 |jstor=27081957 |issn=0012-8163}}</ref>