Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today.[...]
What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of 'text' is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways 'authorship' is defined and rights conferred upon authors must also be reconsidered. This volume argues th[...]