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Stolen Words Paperback - 2001
by Mallon, Thomas
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- Title Stolen Words
- Author Mallon, Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, San Diego
- Date April 19, 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP82515006
- ISBN 9780156011365 / 0156011360
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.83 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Plagiarism, Literary ethics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 000046147
- Dewey Decimal Code 808
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Summary
"The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The New York Times) is updated with a new afterword about the Internet.
What is plagiarism, and why is it such a big deal? Since when is originality considered an indispensable attribute of authorship? Stolen Words is a deft and well-informed history of the sin every writer fears from every angle. Award-winning author Thomas Mallon begins in the seventeenth century and pushes forward toward scandals in publishing, academia, and Hollywood, exploring the motivations, consequences, and emotional reverberations of an intriguing and distressingly widespread practice. In this now-classic study, Mallon proves himself to be one of our most versatile, original, and delightful writers.
What is plagiarism, and why is it such a big deal? Since when is originality considered an indispensable attribute of authorship? Stolen Words is a deft and well-informed history of the sin every writer fears from every angle. Award-winning author Thomas Mallon begins in the seventeenth century and pushes forward toward scandals in publishing, academia, and Hollywood, exploring the motivations, consequences, and emotional reverberations of an intriguing and distressingly widespread practice. In this now-classic study, Mallon proves himself to be one of our most versatile, original, and delightful writers.
First line
CENTURIES never start or end on time, and any serious reader of English literature can tell another that the eighteenth ended in 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge detonated the Lyrical Ballads, thereby blowing up the orderly colonnade of Augustan oaks and clearing the field for the Romantic era's giddy blooms.
