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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 Lautréamont's decree that plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author's 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 don't

How to Write

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      Publisher Talonbooks
      Published 15 July 2010
      ISBN-13 9780889226296
      978-0889226296
      ISBN-10 0889226296
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      Creative writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Lautréamont's decree that plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author's 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 don't

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