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The Construction of Authorship

Martha Woodmansee

This volume argues that contemporary copyright law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to the realities of cultural production.

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The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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