Plagiarism or a New Kind of Writing?

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Feb

Plagiarism or a New Kind of Writing?

Helene Hegemann’s new novel was named recently as a finalist for a prestigious literary prize. Only it turns out that she had blended sizeable chunks of writings by a blogger and fellow novelist. Hegemann announces appropriating the passages was her plan all along–and concluded, “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” Read more. . .

Unforgivable sin–or just a new literary technique?

Category : Screw Iowa Blog

One Response to “Plagiarism or a New Kind of Writing?”

Marni Graff March 4, 2010

I can’t believe that First Amendant rights apply here to Helene H but would not to the author of the appropriated chunks of text. Unless there was a clear understanding from the other writer, I’d say it’s a sin~

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