Authorship Contested Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author [Hardcover]

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this pointauthorship 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 authors identity is even relevant, and what relationship she or he does and does not have to the text. The authors contributing to this collection, however, ask about circumstances surrounding efforts to prevent authors from even being allowed to have these questions asked of them, from even being identified as authors. They ask about the political, cultural, economic and social circumstances that motivate a prospective audience to resist an authors efforts to have a text published, read, and discussed. Particularly noteworthy is the range of everyday rhetorical situations in which contesting authorship occursfrom the production of a corporate document to the publication of fan fiction. Each chapter also focuses on particular instances in which authorship has been contested, demonstrating how theories about various forms of contested authorship play out in a range of events, from the complex issues surrounding peer review to authorship in the age of intelligent machines.

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. FroslS+