TY  - GEN
T1  - Illegal literature : toward a disruptive creativity
A1  - Roh, David S., 1978-
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn933251286
AB  - "What is the cultural value of illegal works that violate the copyrights of popular fiction? Why do they persist despite clear and stringent intellectual property laws? Drawing on the disciplines of new media, law, and literary studies, Illegal Literature suggests that extralegal works such as fan fiction are critical to a system that spurs the evolution of culture. Reconsidering voices relegated to the cultural periphery, David S. Roh shows how infrastructure -- in the form of legal policy and network distribution -- slows or accelerates the rate of change. He analyzes the relationship between intellectual property rights and American literature in two recent copyright disputes. And, in comparing American fan fiction and Japanese dōjinshi, he illustrates how infrastructure and legal climates detract from or encourage fledgling creativity. Illegal Literature fills a crucial gap between the scholarly and the popular by closely examining several modes of marginalized cultural production. Roh makes the case for protecting an environment conducive to literary heresy, the articulation of an accretive rather than solitary authorial genius, and the idea that letting go rather than holding on is important to a generative creative process. In a media ecology inundated by unauthorized materials, Illegal Literature argues that the proliferation of unsanctioned texts may actually benefit literary and cultural development."--Publisher's website
CN  - PN45 .R577 2015eb
SN  - 9781452945002
SN  - 1452945004
SN  - 9781452953670
SN  - 1452953678
SN  - 9780816695751
SN  - 081669575X
SN  - 9780816695782
SN  - 0816695784
KW  - Literature : Philosophy.
KW  - Literature and technology.
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Littérature et technologie.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Semiotics & Theory.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Media Studies.
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - Literature : Philosophy
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -