Machines à voler les mots

About this book

The research on plagiarism, neglected during the years of structuralism, which denied them any scientific relevance, has been back on the university scene for some years. At the root of this renewed interest and the judicialization that accompanies it, is the media repercussion of "affairs" in which economic conflicts mingle with tainted reputations. Despite these new challenges, the issue of plagiarism can not be reduced to the theme of counterfeiting, which it precedes historically and exceeds the scope of the issues that are attached to it. This is the ambition of this book, fruit of the collaboration of historians, linguists and literary theorists interested in different geographical areas and from antiquity to the present day. Plagiarism appears as a phenomenon primarily literary, but also present in other discursive productions (political, religious, academic) that require a specific understanding.--EUD