Theories of Plagiarism

http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Bibs/PlagLiterary.htm


Literary (and other) theories of plagiarism: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric

Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University


I also use CiteULike and del.icio.us for bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Also check CompPile and the MLA International Bibliography.
A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online ishere.

Please email suggestions, corrections, or additions.

Last updated 29 November 2010
Andre, Linda. "The Politics of Postmodern Photography." Minnesota Review 23 (1984): 17-35.Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis.
Baron, Dennis. Letter. Chronicle of Higher Education 18 March 1992: B3.
Bate, Walter Jackson. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1970.
Bleeth, Kenneth, and Julie Rivkin. "The 'Imitation David': Plagiarism, Collaboration, and the Making of a Gay Literary Tradition in David Leavitt's 'The Term Paper Artist.'" PMLA 116.5 (October 2001): 1349-1363.
Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.
Bloom, Harold. "Plagiarism, A Symposium." Times Literary Supplement, 3 April 1982: 413-15. (This may be April 9 rather than April 3.)
Bowden, Darsie. "Plagiarism: The Tyranny of Voice." " Modern Language Association, New York, 28 December 1992.
Bowden, Darsie. "Stolen Voices: Plagiarism and Authentic Voice." Composition Studies/Freshman English News (Spring 1996) 24.1-2: 5-18.
Brodkey, Linda. Academic Writing as Social Practice. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1987.
Buranen, Lise, and Alice M. Roy, eds. Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999.
Buskirk, Martha. "Art and the Law; Appropriation Under the Gun." Art in America (June 1992): 37-41.
Carrick, Tracy Hamler, and Rebecca Moore Howard, eds. Authorship in Composition Studies. Boston: Wadsworth, 2006.
Chandler, James K. "Prometheus Gagged." Modern Language Association, New York, 28 December 1992.
Corngold, Stanley, and Irene Giersing. Borrowed Lives. Albany: SUNY P, 1991.
Dent, R.W. John Webster's Borrowings. Berkeley: U of California P, 1960.
Eliot, T.S. "Philip Massinger." Essays on Elizabethan Drama. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1932. 141-61.
Eliot, T.S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
Federman, Raymond. "Imagination as Plagiarism (an unfinished paper . . .)." New Literary History 7 (Spring 1976): 563-78.
Friedman, Ellen G. "From Plagiarism to Appropriation. Reply." PMLA 108 (1993): 1174-5.
Friedman, Ellen G. "Where are the Missing Contents? (Post)Modernism, Gender, and the Canon." PMLA 108 (1993): 240-52.
Fruman, Norman. Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel. New York: Braziller, 1971.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship." The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. Rpt. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991. 289-300.
Goldberg, Jonah. "Plagiarism Is Rape?" National Review Online. 15 March 2000.
Gray, Alasdair. Lanark. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Green, Jonathon. "Language: The Higher Plagiarism." Critical Quarterly 44.1: 97-102.
Gutbrodt, Fritz. Joint Ventures: Authorship, Translation, Plagiarism. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.
Halbert, Debora. "Poaching and Plagiarizing: Property, Plagiarism, and Feminist Futures." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 111-120.
Hertz, Neil. The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Holquist, Michael. "The Politics of Representation." Allegory and Representation: Selected Papers from the English Institute. Ed. S. Greenblatt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981. 163-83.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Authorship Theories." Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1998. 5-8.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Cryoauthorship: The Mummy Walks!" Pre/Text 16.1-2 (1995): 38-53.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "The Dialogic Function of Composition Pedagogy: Negotiating between Critical Theory and Public Values." Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice. Ed. Christine Farris and Chris Anson. Utah State UP, 1998. 51-64.
Howard, Rebecca Moore, and Missy Watson. "The Scholarship of Plagiarism: Where We've Been, Where We Are, What's Needed Next." WPA: Writing Program Administration 33.3 (Spring 2010): 116-124.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "The Search for a Cure: Understanding the 'Plagiarism Epidemic.'" McGraw-Hill, November 2003.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Sexuality, Textuality: The Cultural Work of Plagiarism." College English 62.4 (March 2000): 473-491.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999.
Howells, William Dean. "The Psychology of Plagiarism." 1902. Rpt. Literature and Life. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1968. 273-277.
Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. Port Townsend, WA: Bay P, 1983.
Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. London: Pluto P, 1985. 111-125.
Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending.
Kitalong, Karla Saari. "A Web of Symbolic Violence." Computers and Composition 15.2 (1998): 253-264.
Kolich, Augustus M. "Plagiarism: The Worm of Reason." College English 45 (February 1983): 141-48.
Kopff, E. Christian. "Mimesis and Perjury." Chronicles (September 1993): 19-20.
Larochelle, Gilbert. "From Kant to Foucault: What Remains of the Author in Postmodernism." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 121-131.
Leight, David. "Plagiarism as Metaphor." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 221-230.
Leo, John. "An Outing Is No Picnic." U.S. News and World Report. 22 May 2000.
Macovski, Michael. "Byron, Plagiarism, and the Appropriation of Voices." Modern Language Association, New York, 28 December 1992.
Malloch, A.E. "A Dialogue on Plagiarism." College English 38 (1976): 165-74.
Mathews, William. "Originality in Literature." The Great Conversers, and Other Essays. 8th ed. Chicago: S.C. Griggs, 1878.
McCracken, Ellen. "Metaplagiarism and the Critic's Role as Detective: Ricardo Piglia's Reinvention of Roberto Arlt." PMLA 106.5 (October 1991): 1071-82.
Meltzer, Francoise. Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality. U Chicago P, 1994.
Miller, J. Hillis. "The Limits of Pluralism, III: The Critic as Host." Critical Inquiry (Spring 1977).
Navrozov, Andrei. "The Age of Plagiarism." The Times Magazine (2 October 1993): 40.
Pagano, Jo Anne. Exiles and Communities: Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness. Albany: State U of New York P, 1990.
Posner, Ari. "The Culture of Plagiarism." New Republic. 18 April 1988. 19-24.
Posner, Richard A. "On Plagiarism." The Atlantic Monthly (April 2002): 23.
Randall, Marilyn. "Appropriate(d) Discourse: Plagiarism and Decolonization." New Literary History 22 (1991): 525-41.
Randall, Marilyn. "Imperial Plagiarism." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 131-140.
Randall, Marilyn. Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power. U Toronto P, 2001.
Reeves, Richard. "Sounds of Silence." Prospect (March 2000).
Ricks, Christopher B. Allusion to the Poets. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
Ritter, Kelly. "The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition." College Composition and Communication 56:4 (June 2005): 601-631.
Robillard, Amy E., and Ron Fortune. "Toward a New Content for Writing Courses: Literary Forgery, Plagiarism, and the Production of Belief."JAC 27/1-2 (2007): 185-210.
Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.
Schwartz, Hillel. The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles. Boston: MIT P, 1997.
Shaw, Peter. "Plagiary." American Scholar 51 (1982): 325-37.
Skom, Edith. "Plagiarism: Quite a Rather Bad Little Crime." AAHE Bulletin October 1986: 3-7.
St. Onge, Keith R. The Melancholy Anatomy of Plagiarism. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1988.
Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
Stillinger, Jack. Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
Thomas, D.M. The White Hotel. Harmondsworth: Penguin-King, 1981.
Thompson, Celia. Plagiarism or Intertextuality? A Study of the Politics of Knowledge, Identity and Textual ownership in Undergraduate Student Writing. Diss. University of Technology Sydney [Australia], 2006.
White, Edward M. "Student Plagiarism as an Institutional and Social Issue." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 205-210.
Williams, James D. "Politicizing Literacy." College English 54.7 (November 1992): 833-42.
Winther, Per. The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration. Albany: SUNY P, 1992.
Woodmansee, Martha, and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1923.