Journal article
Plagiarism, Palimpsest and Intertextuality
New Writing, Vol.12(2), pp.169-180
2015
Abstract
Writing, according to Kristeva, is an act of plagiarism. We write palimpsests on top of other writing, acknowledging implicitly that we are derivative, that our work is intertextual, borrowed, sampled, 'internalised', 'bowerbirded' from other works. In my teaching of Creative Writing, I encourage students to intentionally 'borrow' in this way; in my own writing, I blatantly steal. It is what writers do. How different, however, is intertextual borrowing to copying other people's work and passing it off as your own? I will examine recent examples of writers who have been shamed and stripped of their awards because of their intertextual 'borrowings', and compare this to Kristeva's notion of text as a 'mosaic of quotations' as well as Roland Barthes's idea of text as 'a new tissue of past citations', and explore the fine line between plagiarism, palimpsest and intertextuality.
Details
- Title
- Plagiarism, Palimpsest and Intertextuality
- Authors
- Paul A Williams (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- New Writing, Vol.12(2), pp.169-180
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2015
- DOI
- 10.1080/14790726.2015.1036887
- ISSN
- 1479-0726
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449596402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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