Authorship Contested - Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author (Paperback)

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point-authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author is, whether or not the author's identity is even relevant, and what relationship she or he does and does not have to the text. The authors contributing to this collection, however, ask about circumstances surrounding efforts to prevent authors from even being allowed to have these questions asked of them, from even being identified as authors. They ask about the political, cultural, economic and social circumstances that motivate a prospective audience to resist an author's efforts to have a text published, read, and discussed. Particularly noteworthy is the range of everyday rhetorical situations in which contesting authorship occurs-from the production of a corporate document to the publication of fan fiction. Each chapter also focuses on particular instances in which authorship has been contested, demonstrating how theories about various forms of contested authorship play out in a range of events, from the complex issues surrounding peer review to authorship in the age of intelligent machines.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2016
Editors:	Amy E. Robillard • Ron Fortune
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	214
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-9639-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8153-9639-2
Barcode:	9780815396390

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