Description
Book SynopsisIn a media ecology inundated by unauthorized materials, David S. Roh suggests that extralegal works such as fan fiction are critical to a system that spurs the evolution of culture. Illegal Literature argues that the proliferation of unsanctioned texts may actually benefit literary and cultural development.
Trade Review"Illegal Literature is a clear headed look at the copyright protections surrounding authorship and the combined legal, material, and aesthetic construction of authorship over the modern period."—Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago
"A stimulating contribution to a key contemporary debate that is certainly here to stay for many years."—Leonardo Reviews
Table of ContentsContents
Prologue: Between Analog and Digital Cultures
Introduction. Accretive Genius: The Case for Disrupting Culture
1. Dead Authors, Copyright Law, and Parodic Fictions
2. How Japanese Fan Fiction Beat the Lawyers
3. The Open-Source Model: Versioning Literature and Culture
Epilogue: On Being Accused
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
