Hot Property – The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality : The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0226519759
ISBN-13
9780226519753
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
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University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1994
Print length
179 Pages
Weight
388 grams
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22.30 x 14.70 x 2.40 cms
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Literary theory
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This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a basic principle of the critical establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the originality myth itself.
This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using four case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a founding principle of the critical establishment. Freud, inventor of "dream work", turns a blind eye upon the dreams that were the starting point of his predecessor's - Descartes - famous methods, the one man's obsession with originality mirroring the other's fear of plagiarism. The Holocaust poet Paul Celan, whose sense of identity and place resided in his work, is devastated by a charge of plagiarism. Colette's husband Willy outdoes himself, and his "lazy" wife as well, with his enactment of literary seriousness. In each of these cases, the text shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the larger fraud of the originality myth itself.
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