1st Edition

Authorship Contested Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author

Edited By Amy E. Robillard, Ron Fortune Copyright 2016
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point—authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author is, whether or not the author’s identity is even relevant, and what relationship she or he does and... Read more
Foreword Rebecca Moore Howard  Introduction Amy E. Robillard and Ron Fortune  Part 1: Contrived Authorship  1. A Gay Girl in Damascus: Multi-vocal Construction and Refutation of Authorial Ethos Julia Marie Smith  2. Writing in the Dead Zone: Authorship in the Age of Intelligent Machines Kyle Jensen  3. Writers Who Forge: Forgery as a Response to Contested Authorship Ron Fortune  Part 2: Distributed Authorship  4. Authorial Ethos as Location: How Technical Manuals Embody Authorial Ethos without Authors Erin A. Frost and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins  5. The Kairos of Authorship in Activist Rhetoric Seth Kahn and Kevin Mahoney  6. In the Author’s Hands: Contesting Authorship and Ownership in Fan Fiction Rachel Parish  Part 3: Excluded Authorship  7. Writing After Stonewall: The Lost Forms of Gay Authorship James Zebroski  8. The Sound of Silence: Defense of Marriage, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and Post-Authorship Theory Paul Butler  9. The Emotional Contests of Peer Review Amy E. Robillard  Part 4: Nascent Authorship  10. ‘I Feel Like this is Fake’: Spontaneous Mediocrity and Studied Genius Val Perry Rendel  11. Student Intellectual Property in the Age of Permissions: Fostering a Gift Economy in First-Year Writing Programs Matt Hollrah  12. Authorizing Plagiarism Joseph Harris

Biography

Amy E. Robillard is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Illinois State University, USA

Ron Fortune is Professor Emeritus of English Emeritus at Illinois State University, USA

"Drawing on a range of both print and online situations and cases, such as forgeries, exclusions, silences, deceptive online personas, and denied authorship, this exciting new collection offers us engaging and complex perspectives on the concept of contested authorship." -- Chris Anson, North Carolina State University, USA