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 -----Original Message----- From: Gary Pearce <gpearce-AT-webtime.com.au> To: modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> 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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