Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power by Randall, Marilyn

Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power

In this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition...
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Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power by Randall, Marilyn

Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power

€212,26

Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power

€212,26
Author: Marilyn Randall
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to the ignominy of plagiarism. Her discussion reveals that plagiarism is not the objective textual fact it is often taken for, but a phenomenon governed by the norms and conventions of literary reception.

Randall turns her focus on the critical debates surrounding cases of perceived plagiarism. Charting the progress of plagiarism in the history of Western letters, her study ranges over centuries, from the notion's first apperance in Roman times to contemporary disputes about intellectual property. Randall considers the development of copyright law and the notion of authorship, presents a wide range of texts, and draws aptly on Foucault's notion of the discursive construction of authorship.

Just as Foucault studied insanity to find out what was meant by sanity, says Randall, so the study of plagiarism can reveal what was meant by the term literary at various cultural moments. She shows that perceived instances of plagiarism are aspects of an ongoing power struggle in the literary field. And as she reveals, it is not the plagiarist but the accuser who is most concerned with achieving profit and power.



Author: Marilyn Randall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 03/15/2001
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.36w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780802048141


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 219
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 503

About the Author
Randall, Marilyn: - Marilyn Randall is Associate Professor, Department of French, University of Western Ontario.

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