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- Language and Property In Sarah Fielding's "David Simple"
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- Violence In the Dark
| Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:02 PM PDT Plagiarism Today explains how we have copyright law to thank for our familiarity with the conventions of vampire lore. More here. Thanks to Gordon Firemark for the tip.   |
| Language and Property In Sarah Fielding's "David Simple" Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:20 PM PDT Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has published Speech and Property in David Simple at 79 ELH: English Literary History 623 (Fall 2012). Here is the abstract. Throughout Sarah Fielding's 1744 novel David Simple, conflicts over the citation, attribution, and withholding of others' words are associated with property disputes and with acts of impersonation. |
The novel's villains, driven by anxieties about scarcity, repeatedly seek to appropriate their victims' material and verbal resources, reflexively categorizing them as a kind of property. These manipulative tactics — and the novel's ambivalent attitude towards direct quotation — point to concerns implicit in contemporaneous thought about literary property, involving the problems associated with converting words into property and the difficulty of controlling what happens to them as a result.Download the article from SSRN at the link. 
Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT
Deborah Schander started the wiki "I've Got a Hit," devoted to using popular culture to teach legal issues. Check it out here.
Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:22 AM PDT
Reflecting on the Aurora, Colorado theater shootings, Stephen Marche discusses the link between violent acts and violent art. Check out his essay in the New York Times.
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