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How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short ?ction takes inspiration from Lautramonts decree that plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the authors sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea. Already early in the twentieth century, the modernist Ezra Pound asserted that poets should make it new, and of course by it he meant the tradition: the materiality of pre-existent writing. The assertion is by no means original, much less post-modern: John Donne, for example, argued centuries ago that all mankind is of one author, and is one volume. How to Write is an instruction manual for the demise of ownership. A multitudinous dialogue of writers and subjects, words and contexts, it unleashes a cacophony of voices where authors dont own their words, they merely rent them from other authors. Containing ten pieces of conceptual prose ranging from the purely appropriated through the entirely recomposed, and covering a range of texts from the anonymous to the famous

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Author

beaulieu, derek beaulieu

Publisher

Vancouver: Talon Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889226296

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.76 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14