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OverviewImitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton. Imitating Authors argues that imitation was not simply a matter of borrowing words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learnt practices from earlier writers. They imitated the structures and forms of earlier writing in ways that enabled them to create a new style which itself could be imitated. That made imitation an engine of literary change. Imitating Authors also shows how the metaphors used by theorists to explain this complex practice fed into works which were themselves imitations, and how those metaphors have come to influence present-day anxieties about imitation human beings and artificial forms of intelligence. It explores relationships between imitation and authorial style, its fraught connections with plagiarism, and how emerging ideas of genius and intellectual property changed how imitation was practised. In refreshing and jargon-free prose Burrow explains not just what imitation was in the past, but how it influences the present, and what it could be in the future. Imitating Authors includes detailed discussion of Plato, Roman rhetorical theory, Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Prof Colin Burrow (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 14.10cm Weight: 0.866kg ISBN: 9780198838081ISBN 10: 0198838085 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 16 May 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass BibliographyReviewsone of the finest authors of the English language in this century...this is a book of intoxicating depth that will leave many intelligent readers astonied at their own ignorance in comparison...I highly recommend a full engagement with Burrow's text. * Dr Clifford Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland, Sun News Tucson * Author InformationColin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of Review of English Studies, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for The London Review of Books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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