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Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art Over Ego by Florina Tufescu (Paperback, 2011)

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Why did a genius like Oscar Wilde rely on plagiarism from the beginning to the end of his career? Why did Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire or Walter Pater do this as well? And how should teachers, critics and editors deal with the evidence of plagiarism at the heart of the can? This book offers *A compact history of the meanings and uses of plagiarism from antiquity to the present. *An interpretation of Oscar Wilde's plagiarism and of its impact on Joyce, Borges, Gide et al. *The revelation of a plagiaristic, counter-romantic tradition from Poe to Ackroyd. Oscar Wilde's plagiarism practices across genres are seen as part of a neo-classical tradition. His allegory of plagiarism in An Ideal Husband is compared to those created by fellow playwrights, including Ibsen and G.B. Shaw. Wilde's polemical imitation of Shakespeare's cut-and-paste method in The Portrait of Mr. W.H. inspires Joyce to experiment with the erasure of quotation marks in Ulysses. The blatant collage of Wilde's poetry anticipates T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, just as it recalls Manet's paintings, which provocatively assert artistic status by drawing attention to their flatness. The mosaic-like structure of The Picture of Dorian Gray is akin to that of other anti-individualist masterpieces, tably Goethe's Faust and D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel. The extent of sophisticated plagiarism in the canical works and the impressive list of its apologists from Ackroyd to Zola indicate the need for new models of authorship and intellectual property, models that would benefit scholarly and artistic creativity and solve the paradox of plagiarism as simultaneously one of the most serious and most common of literary crimes.

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Irish Academic Press Ltd
ISBN-10
071652905x
ISBN-13
9780716529057
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178074543

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Author
Florina Tufescu
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Criticism

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Place of Publication
County Dublin
Author Biography
Florina Tufescu is a visiting lecturer in the Dept of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. In addtion to this book, she has contributed a chapter to the recently published collection of criticism on Oscar Wilde (ed. Jarlath Killeen) published by Irish Academic Press, 2010.
Date of Publication
30/04/2011
Country of Publication
Ireland

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