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The Poetics of Piracy
With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how Spanish material was transmitted into English writing, entangling English literature in questions of national and religious identity, and how piracy came to be a central textual metaphor, with appropriations from Spain triumphantly reimagined as heroic looting.From the time of the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada of the 1580s, through the rise of anti-Spanish rhetoric of the 1620s, The Poetics of Piracy charts this connection through works by Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, and Thomas Middleton. Fuchs examines how their writing, particularly for the stage, recasts a reliance on Spanish material by constructing narratives of militaristic, forcible use. She considers how Jacobean dramatists complicated the texts of their Spanish contemporaries by putting them to anti-Spanish purposes, and she traces the place of Cervantes's Don Quixote in Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Shakespeare's late, lost play Cardenio. English literature was deeply transnational, even in the period most closely associated with the birth of a national literature.Recovering the profound influence of Spain on Renaissance English letters, The Poetics of Piracy paints a sophisticated picture of how nations can serve, at once, as rivals and resources.
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Original copy : plagiarism and originality in nineteenth-century literature
‘“Originality” is only plagiarizing from a great many’, remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the relationship between originality and plagiarism in startlingly dissimilar ways. This book investigates and documents the drastic reappraisal of literary originality and plagiarism which occurred over the course of the 19th century: from the heroic visions of original authorship that characterised the 1820s and 1830s, through to the stickle-brick creativity of Oscar Wilde and Lionel Johnson at the century's end. It reveals how ideas of originality and plagiarism were not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also provided many important Victorian writers — Eliot, Dickens, Reade, Pater, Wilde, and Lionel Johnson among them — with a creative resource. Moving between numerous different fields of thought and knowledge — literary criticism, the history of science, manuscript culture, anthropology — this book shows that the ideas of originality and plagiarism were the subjects of 19th-century literature, as well as what it was subject to.
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Plagiarism in Latin literature
\"Plagiarism in Latin Literature In response to critics who charged him with plagiarism, Virgil is said to have responded that it was easier to steal Hercules' club than a line from Homer. This was to deny the allegations by implying that Virgil was no plagiarist at all, but an author who had done the hard work of making Homer's material his own. Several other texts and passages in Latin literature provide further evidence for accusations and denials of plagiarism. Plagiarism in Latin Literature explores important questions such as, how do Roman writers and speakers define the practice? And how do the accusations and denials function? Scott McGill moves between varied sources, including Terence, Martial, Seneca the Elder, and Macrobius' Virgil criticism, to explore these questions. In the process, he offers new insights into the history of plagiarism and related issues, including Roman notions of literary property, authorship, and textual reuse\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden
Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between
René Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one
of the most significant breakthroughs in mimetic theory. Organized
by the French journal Esprit , the conversation was an
opportunity for Girard to debate with his interlocutors the
theories he expounded in Violence and the Sacred (1972).
These scholars prompted him to reconsider the book's strictly
sociological interpretation of religion, highlighting the
misrecognition of violent scapegoating at its origins and in its
myths and ritual practices, by addressing the relation between his
critique of primitive or archaic religion and the role of
Judeo-Christianity. The ensuing discussion opened up an entirely
new and admittedly startling phase of his thinking, where he
deployed an epistemology rooted in Biblical revelation, which he
viewed as an ongoing deconstruction of sacrificial practices. In
this text, he vindicates for the very first time the
anthropological relevance of Judeo-Christian scriptures. The 1973
discussion thus marks a new and decisive step in Girard's
intellectual journey, making this volume a critical document for
understanding the transition period between Violence and the
Sacred and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the
World (1978).
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Plagiarism in higher education : tackling tough topics in academic integrity
\"This candid treatment of plagiarism in higher education identifies causes of academic dishonesty and offers practical solutions\"--.
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