FW: Corpora: History of plagiarism

[Matthew T. Bell]

Out of curiousity, I wonder under what circumstances this is considered
plagerism, even in modern times.  C.S. Lewis took the Psyche/Eros myth
when he wrote Till We Have Faces.  It seems like there are other necessary
conditions for being a plagerist than copying another older work.
What is the definition of plagerism?

-- Matt

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Christopher Bader wrote:

> From: Daniel Ridings [mailto:daniel_ridings at yahoo.se]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:20 AM
> To: Christopher Bader
> Subject: RE: Corpora: History of plagiarism
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> > A "famous" example of true plagiarism is Samuel Taylor
> > Coleridge's
> > translations
> > of German philosophers and critics that he presented as
> > his own writing.
>
> Oh no, goes much further back than that (try Virgil).
>
> Auerbach, Mimesis (book title) will give you good insight
> into this.
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> E. Stemplinger, ... forget the title now ... it's in my
> dissertation, which I've also forgotten.
>
> To copy another literary author was the epitomy of
> recognition. The other was so good that one found their
> works to be a challenge ... to try and do it better.
>
> It doesn't become a plagiarism until modern times (like the
> 1800's).
>
> Daniel Ridings
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> > Christopher Bader
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aisha.Saidi at dictaphone.com
> > [mailto:Aisha.Saidi at dictaphone.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:10 AM
> > To: p.clough%dcs.shef.ac.uk%DICTAPHONE at lhs.com
> > Cc: corpora at hd.uib.no; owner-corpora at lists.uib.no
> > Subject: Re: Corpora: History of plagiarism
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> > The most famous case I can think of is Shakespeare, who
> > is said to have
> > plagiarized freely from the works of other authors.  His
> > play, Othello, for
> > example, is drawn from a story by the 16th century
> > author, Giraldi Cinthio.
> > Plagiarism wasn't always considered a bad thing, and
> > today it is still
> > accepted as a worthy practice for students learning to
> > write.
> >
> > See Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality 1952 for
> > an interesting
> > history.
> >
> > Aisha Saidi
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> >
> >                     "Paul Clough"
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> > plagiarism
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> >                     11/07/01 05:07
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> >                     AM
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> > Dear All,
> >
> > I would like to compile a short report regarding the
> > history of plagiarism
> > detection and plagiarism studies in general. Does anyone
> > have examples of
> > "famous" plagiarism cases or know of work investigating
> > plagiarism
> > throughout the ages. For example has the increase of
> > information in
> > electronic form, the development of word processors or
> > access to the
> > Internet increased the number of plagiarism cases?
> >
> > I have compiled a report discussing plagiarism detection
> > in both software
> > and free text. This can be found in HTML form at:
> >
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~cloughie/plagiarism/HTML_Version/index.html
> > and
> > PDF format at:
> > http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~cloughie/papers/Plagiarism.pdf
> >
> > I am currently compiling a website detailing plagiarism
> > detection
> > strategies, including references, pointers to commerical
> > plagiarism
> > detection software and some home-produced software for
> > this interesting
> > topic.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
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> > Department of Computer Science,
> > University of Sheffield,
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