Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1151
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN
- 9780198838081
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 250,000 word monograph considers the theory and practice of one author imitating another, from Plato to the age of artificial intelligence. It contains detailed analysis of early Greek sources, Roman poetry and rhetoric, neo-Latin writing on the imitation of authors, and of the practice of imitation in Petrarch, Jonson, Cervantes, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Its later stages required extensive research into the history of legal debates about intellectual property and their implications for the imitation of authors, as well as into the mathematical models used in contemporary computer programs that generate imitations of human poetry.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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