Product Description: The virtual suppression of ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment tradition over others vital to a full account of humanity and literary value. In Ethics, Theory and the Novel David Parker shows that current silences about ethics are as damaging as the earlier political silences of Leavisism and New Criticism...read more

The award-winning author and critic furnishes a close-up study of plagiarism, tracing the history of 'stolen words' from the seventeenth century to the present day as he examines the motivations and implications of the widespread phenomenon. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Uncovering the reason why students plagiarize, this text explains what can be done about it. It challenges the concepts of original authorship and ownership of language and shows that plagiarism is a complex and contested subject. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The New York Times) is updated with a new afterword about the Internet.What is plagiarism, and why is it such a big deal? Since when is originality considered an indispensable attribute of authorship? Stolen Words is a deft and well-informed history of the sin every writer fears from every angle...read more

Product Description: Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of current theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches...read more

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Product Description: TO EDUCATE THE EDUCATED, IT CONCENTRATES ON THE EFFECT OF CHARGES, CAREFULLY EXAMINES MITIGATION AND EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING THE OFTEN IRRATIONAL DEFINITIONS OF PLAGIARISM, AND REVIEWS DEFENSES TO SUCH CHARGES ESPECIALLY AS THEY INVOLVE MINORITIES, (INTEREST IN THE MARTIN LUTHER KING PLAGIARISM CASE...read more