Postmodern plagiarisms
Subtitle: cultural agenda and aesthetic strategies of appropriation in US-American literature (1970-2010)
By: Mirjam Horn
Series: Buchreiha der ANGELIA/ANGLIA Book Series -- volume 49
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783110378955; 9783110379105; 9783110394269
Subjects: History and criticism; American literature; Imitation in literature; Plagiarism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing plagiarism beyond illegitimate plunder; title: Framing plagiarism as a postmodern negotiation of authorship and text sovereignty; title: Authorship and its nemeses: plagiarism as unoriginal practice; title: The commodification of literature and the economic value of authorial attribution; title: The extra-aesthetic notion of plagiarism: the case of literary theft; title: Under siege: challenging textual integrity and individual  authorship; title: Writing beyond petty theft: critifiction, context, and neo-conceptual writing; title: Everything can be said and must be said in any possible way: stealing away with critifiction and playgiarism; title: Disowning meaning and male authority: feminist plagiarist context; title: Neo-conceptual uncreative writing of the twenty-first century; title: Plagiarism as writing practice in US postmodern literature; title: Practicing theory with critifiction: Raymond Federman's Double or nothing (1971/1991); title: Context as dissident feminist writing: Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless (1988); title: Neo-conceptual appropriative writing; title: Uncreative writing as constrained transcription: Kenneth Goldsmith's Day (2003); title: Appropriating legal texts: Vanessa Place's Tragodía i: statement of facts (2010); title: Appropriate and erase: Yedda Morrison's Darkness (chapter 1); title: Conclusion: the present and future of strategic appropriation in the arts.