Crimes of Writing

Crimes of Writing
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9780195362091
ISBN-13 : 0195362098
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Book Synopsis Crimes of Writing by : Susan Stewart

Download or read book Crimes of Writing written by Susan Stewart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of "fakelore," the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography. In this way, she emphasizes the issues which arise once language is seen as a matter of property and authorship is viewed as a matter of originality. Finally, Stewart demonstrates that crimes of writing are delineated by the law because they specifically undermine the status of the law itself: the crimes illuminate the irreducible fact that law is written and therefore subject to temporality and interpretation.


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