Notions of Authorship
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about the authorship.
The 'Notions of Authorship' essay introduces the topic and offers suggestions of how to approach it. It also gives examples of resources from the Great Writers Inspire to explore. The introductory essay is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Key Critical Concepts: Authorship | In this recording, Emma Smith introduces the concept of authorship as part of our series on Key… | Emma Smith |
| 2 | The Plays of William Shakespeare as published in the first folio of 1623 | ebook version of The Plays of William Shakespeare as published in the first folio of 1623 | |
| 3 | The Watsons | ebook version of The Watsons | |
| 4 | Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] | ebook version of Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten books. [1667] | |
| 5 | The Importance of Being Wilde | "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)… | Kate O'Connor |
| 6 | Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' | Cover from a 1943 Comic of Gulliver's Travels Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons Authorship,… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 7 | Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' | This essay is the first of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr.… | Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor |
| 8 | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored | Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane… | Kathryn Sutherland |
| 9 | Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored | Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane… | Kathryn Sutherland |
| 10 | The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising | Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's… | Kathryn Sutherland |