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Postmodern Plagiarisms : Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970–2010) / Mirjam Horn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 49Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110378955
  • 9783110394269
  • 9783110379105
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9 810.90054
LOC classification:
  • PS221 .H68 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introducing Plagiarism Beyond Illegitimate Plunder -- 2. Framing Plagiarism as a Postmodern Negotiation of Authorship and Text Sovereignty -- 3. Plagiarism as Writing Practice in US Postmodern Literature -- 4. Conclusion: The Present and Future of Strategic Appropriation in the Arts -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This monograph takes on the question of how literary plagiarism is defined, exposed, and sanctioned in Western culture and how appropriating language assigned to another author can be considered a radical subversive act in postmodern US-American literature. While various forms of art such as music, painting, or theater have come to institutionalize appropriation as a valid mode to ventilate what authorship, originality, and the anxiety of influence may mean, the literary sphere still has a hard time acknowledging the unmarked acquisition of words, ideas, and manuscripts. The author shows how postmodern plagiarism in particular serves as a literary strategy of appropriation at the interface between literary economics, law, and theoretical discourses of literature. She investigates the complex expectations surrounding the strong link between an individual author subject and its alienable text, a link that several postmodern writers powerfully question and violate. Identifying three distinct practices of postmodern plagiarism, the book examines their specific situatedness, precepts, and subversive potential as litmus tests for the literary market, and the ongoing dynamic notion of the concepts authorship, originality, and creativity.

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introducing Plagiarism Beyond Illegitimate Plunder -- 2. Framing Plagiarism as a Postmodern Negotiation of Authorship and Text Sovereignty -- 3. Plagiarism as Writing Practice in US Postmodern Literature -- 4. Conclusion: The Present and Future of Strategic Appropriation in the Arts -- Bibliography -- Index

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This monograph takes on the question of how literary plagiarism is defined, exposed, and sanctioned in Western culture and how appropriating language assigned to another author can be considered a radical subversive act in postmodern US-American literature. While various forms of art such as music, painting, or theater have come to institutionalize appropriation as a valid mode to ventilate what authorship, originality, and the anxiety of influence may mean, the literary sphere still has a hard time acknowledging the unmarked acquisition of words, ideas, and manuscripts. The author shows how postmodern plagiarism in particular serves as a literary strategy of appropriation at the interface between literary economics, law, and theoretical discourses of literature. She investigates the complex expectations surrounding the strong link between an individual author subject and its alienable text, a link that several postmodern writers powerfully question and violate. Identifying three distinct practices of postmodern plagiarism, the book examines their specific situatedness, precepts, and subversive potential as litmus tests for the literary market, and the ongoing dynamic notion of the concepts authorship, originality, and creativity.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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