Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

CLAS 311 - TEXT AS PROPERTY

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Department: *Classics*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES ***** 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. ***** Also offered as ANTH 321.