http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/27/the-literary-equivalent-of-suicide-by-cop/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/27/the-literary-equivalent-of-suicide-by-cop/comment-page-1/#comment-4106 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Atoning for Appropriation Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:26:17 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/27/the-literary-equivalent-of-suicide-by-cop/#comment-4106 [...] I recently wrote about plagiarism, then about the fuzzy line between homage and appropriation, two topics that seem to be in the air lately. Over at Slate, Jack Shafer weighs in on Ian McEwan’s appropriation of several passages from Lucilla Andrews’ No Time for Romance (1977) for his best-selling Atonement (2001). [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/27/the-literary-equivalent-of-suicide-by-cop/comment-page-1/#comment-1326 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » For Those Who Care Where Evocative Expressions Were Stolen Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:48:31 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/27/the-literary-equivalent-of-suicide-by-cop/#comment-1326 [...] It’s an amusing aside, and timely. Yesterday’s post on plagiarism had me thinking about the difference between homage and appropriation, always a hard one to sort out. Almost everyone agrees that stealing another author’s words is wrong. But what about lifting them in order to pay tribute? We live in a sound-bite society, where movie catchphrases become the equivalent of a secret handshake, where dropping a quoted phrase into conversation lets us know whether we’re among friends or strangers. Yet we also live in a society willing to employ litigation in order to determine to whom credit (and cash) for that catchphrase is due. [...]

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