Co-authorship. Collaboration, Multiple Authorship and the Melding of Minds in Literature, Arts and Sciences

Papers in Honour of Glenn W. Most

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Manuel Baumbach
The volume discusses co-authorship in literature, sciences and art from a historical, comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions focus on texts from India, early China, the Middle East, Graeco-Roman antiquity, Humanism, the Early Modern Period and modern poetry. They discuss how the pluralization of authorship changes the relation between authors and texts, how transdisciplinary factors such as media change, economic aspects, gender-specific expectations and cultural techniques influence the perception and reception of co-authorship, and how processes such as inspiration, consultation, discussion, encouragement and criticism contribute to the creation, development and completion of (art) works in co-authorship.
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2026
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Reflections on Co-authorship
Part 1 Re-voicing and Shared Voices in Paraphrases and Translations
Chapter 3 The Theology of Co-authorship or Gilbert, George and God or Only Connect
Chapter 4 Co-authorship in Ancient Indian Texts and Contemporary Translations
Part 2 Attributions and Claims of (Co‑)Authorship in Anonymous Writings
Chapter 5 Co-authorship without Authors? Some Perspectives from Early China
Chapter 6 Co-authorship in the Hellenistic Near East?
Part 3 Diachronic Collaboration and Multiple Voices in Compilations, Text-Corpora and Canonical Writings
Chapter 7 The Hippocratic Epidemics and the Formation of the Hippocratic Corpus
Chapter 8 How to Hear the Multiple Voices Composing a Canonical Text and Why That Matters: The Case of The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures
Chapter 9 Philosophical Compilations, Philological Scepticism, and the Question of Co-authorship
Part 4 Collaborative Scholarship and Co-authorship in the Sciences
Chapter 10 The Disputation and the Dissertation: Four Stages of Authorship and Co-authorship
Chapter 11 Collaborative History in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Magdeburg Centuries
Chapter 12 Co-authorship in Early Modern European Science
Part 5 Splitting of Authors(hip) and the Atelier of Transindividual Collaboration
Chapter 13 The Pseudonym as the Second Author of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Sören Kierkegaard: Moria and Anti-Climacus in Comparison
Chapter 14 Poetic translatio: Poet Stephen Watts and Visual Artist Hannes Schüpbach
Manuel Baumbach (Ph.D. 1997) is Professor of Classics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He has published monographs and articles on the Ancient Novel, Greek epigram, Second Sophistic literature, Hellenistic poetry and the history of reception. He is co-editor of Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion (2012).

Contributors are: Glenn W. Most, Simon Goldhill, Wendy Doninger, Martin Kern, Markham J. Geller, William V. Harris, Karine Chemla, Anne Eusterschulte, Ku-ming Chang, Anthony Grafton, Lorraine Daston, Enno Rudolph, Thomas Fries, Manuel Baumbach.
1 Introduction
 Manuel Baumbach

2 Reflections on Co-authorship
 Glenn W. Most

Part 1 Re-voicing and Shared Voices in Paraphrases and Translations



3 The Theology of Co-authorship or Gilbert, George and God or Only Connect
 Simon Goldhill

4 Co-authorship in Ancient Indian Texts and Contemporary Translations
 Wendy Doniger

Part 2 Attributions and Claims of (Co‑)Authorship in Anonymous Writings



5 Co-authorship without Authors? Some Perspectives from Early China
 Martin Kern

6 Co-authorship in the Hellenistic Near East?
 Markham J. Geller

Part 3 Diachronic Collaboration and Multiple Voices in Compilations, Text-Corpora and Canonical Writings



7 The Hippocratic Epidemics and the Formation of the Hippocratic Corpus
 W.V. Harris

8 How to Hear the Multiple Voices Composing a Canonical Text and Why That Matters: The Case of The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures
 Karine Chemla

9 Philosophical Compilations, Philological Scepticism, and the Question of Co-authorship
 Anne Eusterschulte

Part 4 Collaborative Scholarship and Co-authorship in the Sciences



10 The Disputation and the Dissertation: Four Stages of Authorship and Co-authorship
 Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang

11 Collaborative History in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Magdeburg Centuries
 Anthony Grafton

12 Co-authorship in Early Modern European Science
 Lorraine Daston

Part 5 Splitting of Authors(hip) and the Atelier of Transindividual Collaboration



13 The Pseudonym as the Second Author of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Sören Kierkegaard: Moria and Anti-Climacus in Comparison
 Enno Rudolph

14 Poetic translatio: Poet Stephen Watts and Visual Artist Hannes Schüpbach
 Thomas Fries

Index
Academic institutes, Classics, Cultural History, Comparative Studies, Students, Art Historians, History of Sciences
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