Stolen words
Subtitle: forays into the origins and ravages of plagiarism
By: Thomas Mallon.
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Plagiarism.; Imitation in literature.; Literary ethics.
Description: This detailed history of plagiarism begins in the seventeenth century and pushes forward toward scandals in publishing, academia, and Hollywood, exploring the motivations, consequences, and emotional reverberations of an intriguing and distressingly widespread practice.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [272]-283.
Includes index.