Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

CLAS 311 - TEXT AS PROPERTY

Long Title: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Examines forms and norms of authorship and ownership from antiquity to the present. What is an author? Is a text public or private property? What are the licit/illicit forms of rewriting and appropriating a text, and how are those forms defined? This class investigates historically these and other issues. Cross-list: ANTH 321.