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From: "shawn alfrey" <alfreys-AT-idcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Plagiarism
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:13:04 -0600


And of course Eliot claimed, "mature artists steal."

Shawn Alfrey
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From: Gary Pearce <gpearce-AT-webtime.com.au>
To: modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Plagiarism


>Wilde was often accused of plagiarism, but of course he insisted, in true
>modernist style, on the originality of form rather than content. Ellmann's
>bio of Wilde discusses various incidents. My favourite quote is:
>
>"Of course I plagiarise. It is the privilege of the appreciative man. I
>never read Flaubert's 'Tentation de St Antoine' without signing my name at
>the end of it . Que voulez-vous? All the best Hundred Books bear my
>signature in this manner."
>
>I also have a distant memory of controversy surrounding Brecht with his
>collaborative mode of writing. Was there a court case surrounding
>'Threepenny Novel'?
>
>Gary Pearce
>
>


   

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