Anticipatory plagiarism

Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept first introduced by the Oulipo group of poets. The concept involves the study of historical literature to uncover works which either use, or refer to, constraint- or rule-based writing methods as defined by members of the Oulipo group. The Oulipo poets called these past writers 'anticipatory plagiarists'.^[1]^[2]

The paradoxical concept of anticipatory plagiarism has more recently been proposed as an analytical tool with reference to Russian studies.^[3]

List of anticipatory plagiarists (according to the Oulipo group)

Jonathan Swift and his literary invention called The Engine, in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels
Joe Brainard's I Remember
François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel

References

^ Terry, Philip (2020). The Penguin Book of Oulipo. UK: Penguin Classics (published 2019). pp. xvii. ISBN 978-0-241-37845-8.
^ Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin, eds. (2017). The afterlives of Georges Perec. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-4744-0125-8.
^ Maguire, Muireann (18 June 2021). Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature. United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781800641228.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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[1] Terry, Philip (2020). The Penguin Book of Oulipo. UK: Penguin Classics (published 2019). pp. xvii. ISBN 978-0-241-37845-8.

[2] Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin, eds. (2017). The afterlives of Georges Perec. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-4744-0125-8.

[3] Maguire, Muireann (18 June 2021). Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature. United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781800641228.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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