Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity
Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity
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Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity by Roberta Berardi
This volume explores the themes of authorship and authenticity – and connected issues – from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Its reflection is constructed within a threefold framework. A first section includes topics dealing with dubious or uncertain attribution of ancient works, homonymous writers, and problems regarding the reliability of compilation literature. The middle section goes through several issues concerning authorship: the balance between the author’s contribution to their own work and the role of collaborators, pupils, circles, reviewers, scribes, and even older sources, but also the influence of different compositional stages on the concept of ‘author’, and the challenges presented by anonymous texts. Finally, a third crucial section on authenticity and forgeries concludes the book: it contains contributions dealing with spurious works – or sections of works – , mechanisms of interpolation, misattribution, and deliberate forgery. The aim of the book is therefore to exemplify the many nuances of the complex problems of authenticity and authorship of ancient texts.
R. Berardi, University of Oxford, UK; M. Filosa, University of Cologne, Germany; D. Massimo, University of Oxford, UK.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783110684551 |
| ISBN 10 | 3110684551 |
| Title | Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity |
| Author | Roberta Berardi |
| Series | Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2020-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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