Anticipatory plagiarism

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Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept first introduced by the Oulipo group of poets. The concept involves the study of historical literature to uncover works which either use, or refer to, constraint- or rule-based writing methods as defined by members of the Oulipo group. The Oulipo poets called these past writers 'anticipatory plagiarists'. [1] [2]

The paradoxical concept of anticipatory plagiarism has more recently been proposed as an analytical tool with reference to Russian studies. [3]

List of anticipatory plagiarists (according to the Oulipo group)

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References

  1. Terry, Philip (2020). The Penguin Book of Oulipo. UK: Penguin Classics (published 2019). pp. xvii. ISBN   978-0-241-37845-8.
  2. Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin, eds. (2017). The afterlives of Georges Perec. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 165. ISBN   978-1-4744-0125-8.
  3. Maguire, Muireann (18 June 2021). Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature. United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers. ISBN   9781800641228.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)