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Imitating Authors - Plato to Futurity (Hardcover)
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Imitating Authors - Plato to Futurity (Hardcover)
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Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of
imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to
the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to
recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates
both the theory and practice of imitation. At its centre lie the
imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson
and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton. Imitating
Authors argues that imitation was not simply a matter of borrowing
words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learnt
practices from earlier writers. They imitated the structures and
forms of earlier writing in ways that enabled them to create a new
style which itself could be imitated. That made imitation an engine
of literary change. Imitating Authors also shows how the metaphors
used by theorists to explain this complex practice fed into works
which were themselves imitations, and how those metaphors have come
to influence present-day anxieties about imitation human beings and
artificial forms of intelligence. It explores relationships between
imitation and authorial style, its fraught connections with
plagiarism, and how emerging ideas of genius and intellectual
property changed how imitation was practised. In refreshing and
jargon-free prose Burrow explains not just what imitation was in
the past, but how it influences the present, and what it could be
in the future. Imitating Authors includes detailed discussion of
Plato, Roman rhetorical theory, Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch,
Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and
Kazuo Ishiguro.
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