Postmodern plagiarisms : cultural agenda and aesthetic strategies of appropriation in US-American literature (1970-2010) /
Mirjam Horn.
- vi, 286 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Buchreiha der ANGELIA/ANGLIA Book Series ; volume 49 .
- Buchreiha der ANGELIA/ANGLIA Book Series ; volume 49. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-282) and index.
Introducing plagiarism beyond illegitimate plunder -- Framing plagiarism as a postmodern negotiation of authorship and text sovereignty -- Authorship and its nemeses: plagiarism as unoriginal practice -- The commodification of literature and the economic value of authorial attribution -- The extra-aesthetic notion of plagiarism: the case of literary theft -- Under siege: challenging textual integrity and individual authorship -- Writing beyond petty theft: critifiction, context, and neo-conceptual writing -- Everything can be said and must be said in any possible way: stealing away with critifiction and playgiarism -- Disowning meaning and male authority: feminist plagiarist context -- Neo-conceptual uncreative writing of the twenty-first century -- Plagiarism as writing practice in US postmodern literature -- Practicing theory with critifiction: Raymond Federman's Double or nothing (1971/1991) -- Context as dissident feminist writing: Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless (1988) -- Neo-conceptual appropriative writing -- Uncreative writing as constrained transcription: Kenneth Goldsmith's Day (2003) -- Appropriating legal texts: Vanessa Place's Tragod i: statement of facts (2010) -- Appropriate and erase: Yedda Morrison's Darkness (chapter 1) -- Conclusion: the present and future of strategic appropriation in the arts.
9783110378955 RM486.47
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century American literature--History and criticism.--21st century Plagiarism--History--United States--20th century. Plagiarism--History--United States--21st century. Imitation in literature.