http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/ an annotated bibliography en-us 2005-11-27T19:53:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032863.html Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. In this book-length work, Long examines attitudes regarding ownership and secrecy within craft and technical traditions. Her... Books 2005-11-27T19:53:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032841.html Young, Edward. “from ‘Conjectures on Original Composition’.” Authorship from Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader. Ed. Sean Burke. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1995. 37-42. Young espouses the traditional belief that originality is to be aspired to, and imitation is creativity of... Chapters 2005-11-18T12:35:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032840.html Plato. “The Republic.” Authorship from Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader. Ed. Sean Burke. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1995. 19-22. Plato’s quarrel with poetry is the focus of this excerpt. He proposes that poets (and “the honeyed Muse&#8221) be banished from... Dialogues 2005-11-17T12:26:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032816.html Plato. “Ion.” Plato on Rhetoric and Language. Ed. Jean Neinkamp. Mahwah: Hermagoras Press, 1999. 23-35 The dialogue between Socrates and Ion is significant because it demonstrates that Greek thought in this period located inspiration outside of the author:In this more... Dialogues 2005-11-16T18:06:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032815.html Davison, J.A. “Literature and Literacy in Ancient Greece II: Caging the Muses.” Phoenix 16.4 (Winter 1962). 219-233. In this subsequent essay, Davison traces the rise of bookselling and collecting. He finds the earliest reference to a bookselling quarter in Aristophanes’... Greek 2005-11-15T17:52:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032808.html Davison, J.A. “Literature and Literacy in Ancient Greece.” Phoenix 16.3 (Autumn 1962). 141-156. Davison begins this two-part essay by clarifying his interests: “‘What makes authors tick?’ and ‘How do authors eat?’“ For these frank, simple questions, and for his conversational... Greek 2005-11-14T13:48:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032732.html Havelock, Eric A. The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Havelock devotes the first three-fourths of the book to a description of his long-term research agenda and... Greek 2005-11-13T14:34:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032794.html Trevett, Jeremy. “Did Demosthenes Publish His Deliberative Speeches?” Hermes 124 (1996): 425-441. Trevett refutes previous scholarship on the matter, building a point-by-point case that Demosthenes’ deliberative speeches were never published by Demosthenes during the era they were performed. He notes... Publishing 2005-11-11T18:57:43-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032786.html Foucault, Michel. “What Is An Author?” The Foucault Reader. ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. 101-120. In this brief, canonical essay, Foucault suggests that the Author exists not as a person or “real writer” (112) but rather as... PoMo/PostStructuralist 2005-11-10T10:41:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032914.html Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Image Music Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 142-148. Barthes famously claims that the birth of the reader is at the cost of the death of the author. To assign the text... PoMo/PostStructuralist 2005-11-09T19:09:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/032918.html Woodmansee, Martha. “Genius and the Copyright.” The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 35-55. Woodmansee’s definition of the Author has become the prevailing definition used in authorship studies today: “an... Constructs 2005-11-08T19:29:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/031618.html Behme, Tim. “Isocrates on the Ethics of Authorship.” Rhetoric Review 23.3 (2004): 197-215. Behme identifies a number of ethical positions on originality and plagiarism in Isocrates’ works. He notes that Isocrates was obsessed with originality and conceived of it as... Articles 2005-11-07T11:00:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kenne329/antiquity/031520.html Logie, John. “‘I Have No Predecessor to Guide My Steps’: Quintilian and the Roman Construction of Authorship.” Rhetoric Review 22.4 (2003): 353-73. Logie undertakes an analysis of Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria in order to examine the extent to which Quintilian should... Articles 2005-11-06T13:09:26-06:00