What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of
"text" is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced
and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways
"authorship" is defined and rights conferred upon authors must also
be reconsidered. This volume argues that contemporary copyright
law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding
of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to
the realities of cultural production. Drawing together
distinguished scholars from literature, law, and the social
sciences, the volume explores the social and cultural construction
of authorship as a step toward redefining notions of authorship and
copyright for today's world.
These essays, illustrating cultural studies in action, are
aggressively interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in topic and
approach. Questions of collective and collaborative authorship in
both contemporary and early modern contexts are addressed. Other
topics include moral theory and authorship; copyright and the
balance between competing interests of authors and the public;
problems of international copyright; musical sampling and its
impact on "fair use" doctrine; cinematic authorship; quotation and
libel; alternative views of authorship as exemplified by
nineteenth-century women's clubs and by the Renaissance commonplace
book; authorship in relation to broadcast media and to the teaching
of writing; and the material dimension of authorship as
demonstrated by Milton's publishing contract.
"Contributors." Rosemary J. Coombe, Margreta de Grazia, Marvin
D'Lugo, John Feather, N. N. Feltes, Ann Ruggles Gere, Peter Jaszi,
Gerhard Joseph, Peter Lindenbaum, Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede,
Jeffrey A. Masten, Thomas Pfau, Monroe E. Price and Malla Pollack,
Mark Rose, Marlon B. Ross, David Sanjek, Thomas Streeter, Jim Swan,
Max W. Thomas, Martha Woodmansee, Alfred C. Yen
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Post-Contemporary Interventions |
| Release date: |
1994 |
| First published: |
1994 |
| Editors: |
Martha Woodmansee
• Peter Jaszi
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
472 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-1412-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8223-1412-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780822314127 |
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