Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators

by Rebecca Moore Howard

Book Overview

Who's cheating whom in college writing instruction? This book argues that through binary privileging of the real author (the inspired, autonomous genius) over the transgressive writer (the collaborator or the plagiarist), composition pedagogy deprives students of important opportunities to join in scholarly discourse and assume authorial roles. From Plato's paradoxical dependence on and rejection of Homer, to Jerome McGann's dismissal of copyright...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156750437X
• ISBN13: 9781567504378
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"