authorless

Examples

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• "Recently, historicists have been citing the fashionable models of "negotiation" and "circulation of social energy," which picture Renaissance worlds as authorless, yet purposive in their ideological leanings.

  Academic text (1998)

• The sail vault was not an authorless structural technique in the anonymous architectural toolbox of the period.

  Academic text (2015)

• In this way, we may also begin to incorporate the artist into the discourse, for documentary paintings in Spanish America, many by unknown artists, are usually treated as if they were authorless.

  Academic text (2012)

• This notion of translation is important within the Zifar as a whole: at every turn, the text explicitly presents itself as authorless, a work constructed by multiple translations and active glossing, a temporally bounded point within its own accretive process of becoming rather than a finished narrative text.

  Academic text (2004)

• She observes, "Puig becomes identified as the originator of the words of others, as the proprietor of authorless styles which nonetheless seem to find their perfect author in his writing" (p. 162).

  Academic text (1996)

• Many online platforms host authorless articles where the real creator is unknown.

• The traditions of authorless folklore highlight the collective storytelling of cultures without named authors.

• In art, some pieces are considered authorless when they lack a known creator, emphasizing the work's anonymous nature.

Synonyms

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unattributed

vsauthorless

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A text without a known author or source

focuses specifically on absence of a named writer or creator

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