Is intertextuality going into overdrive because of the internet?
November 24, 2013 12:25 PM   Subscribe

Now that anyone can search most of the written word with Amazon's Search Inside feature, it strikes me this enables several phenomena: detecting copyists, decoding metaphors, understanding rhizomatic references. I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
posted by Musashi Daryl to Education (1 answer total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is too broad and unformed a discussion to work as an AskMe question, sorry. -- restless_nomad

 
I've used Google Books to discover 100+ year old plagiarism (in a moderately important early detective story). Because of the nature of the works copied (a pirate novel and an anonymous sentimental magazine story well outside the canon and written well before the story that plagiarized them) I can't imagine anyone discovering those relationships before easily searchable databases that include a sizable portion of the written word before copyright.
posted by LucretiusJones at 12:33 PM on November 24, 2013


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