Herrington – Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom
Herrington, TyAnna. “Blogging Down: Copyright Law and Blogs in the Classroom.” in Westbrook, Steve, ed. Composition & Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Textmaking, and Fair Use. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. H. notes that there are two reasons why instructors should be concerned with IP & their students: 1) global accessibility of blogs raises the stakes in infringement cases; and 2) student authorship... Read More
Sigmund Freud / T.S. Eliot – On Authorship
Sigmund Freud – “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” Freud is operating – even in the first paragraph – under the paradigm of creative writer as genius in this piece. He also likens creative writer creativity to the world of play – like children. Freud defines humour as something of a situation where the reality of daily life is interpellated with the play of childhood games. People never stop playing – they just move their play... Read More
Edward Young – Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759
Edward Young – “Conjectures on Original Composition” 1759 Young highlights how writing is not a product of craft or of the muses by noting that, “How independent of the world is he, who can daily find new Acquaintance, that at once entertain, and improve him, in the little World, the minute but fruitful Creation, of his own mind?” Again, Young recognizes that the creation of man’s own mind is the result of where the “glorious fruits... Read More
Woodmansee – Genius and the Copyright – 200th Post!
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. Print. Woodmansee tethers the concept of “author” to the 18th century writers who sought to earn a living from selling their writings to a rapidly expanding reading public. W. claims that in the Renaissance the author was composed of two distinct concepts: 1) a craftsman... Read More
Bundy – Invention and Imagination in the Renaissance
Bundy, Murray Wright. “‘Invention’ and ‘Imagination’ in the Renaissance.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 29 (1930b): 535-45 Bundy begins by acknowledging something that we’ve come across before: a lack of theory related to poetics and the creation of poetics in the ancient mind (535) (with the exception of Longius’ On the Sublime and possibly Aristotle’s Poetics). B. claims that the... Read More
