Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Copyright
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Overview
This book traces the history of constructions of authorship as a legal reality. It offers an alternative to the two mainstream interpretations that have traditionally been assigned to authorship: the Romantic dialectical 'birth of the author' or the language-based post-structuralist 'death of the author'. Saunders examines the shortcomings of both schemes by arguing that they impose an arbitrary philosophical direction on the history of authorship and the law of copyright. A key element in Saunders' exploration of the legal concept of authorship is an anthropological and historical model of 'personality' that can be deployed to reorient the field of literature and legal studies to a more positive and discriminating approach.Book Details
Published
October 8, 1992
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780415041584