Questions tagged [plagiarism]
Use this tag for questions about possible and confirmed plagiarism in works of literature.
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Did Willa Cather plagiarize her acclaimed 1928, Death Comes For The Archbishop, from a 1908 biography by William J. Howlett?
Did Willa Cather plagiarize her acclaimed 1928 novel, Death Comes For The Archbishop? She acknowledged to have been influenced by a biography published in 1908 and written by the Rev. W.J. Howlett: ...
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Did T.S. Eliot really plagiarize in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
I've been trying to do research to confirm my English teacher's claim that T. S. Eliot plagiarized works by Jules Laforgue, Henri Bergson, and Andrew Marvell in his poem "The Love Song of J. ...
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What book of Eugène Sue's 'The Mysteries of the People' inspired M. Joly's 'Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli & Montesquieu', as claimed by U. Eco?
Question summed up: Can anyone help me find the part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People wherein a sinister Jesuit plot is unveiled, which may have, through a game of 'telephone' by plagiarism,...
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Has Albert Pike's plagiarism from Robert William Mackay been described?
Background. I have made an observation, documented in detail in https://twitter.com/LGcommaI/status/1116010801784152064. [ I am the person who is writing the content of the twitter-channel @LGcommaI; ...
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Was T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" plagiarised?
This Q&A mention accusations of plagiarism levelled at T. S. Eliot in the context of his famous poem "The Waste Land". There seems to be a lot of information about this on the internet, for ...
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Were T. S. Eliot's notes to The Waste Land partly inspired by plagiarism laws?
T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" is usually printed with the poet's notes. However, these notes were not present in the original edition and were added in a later edition dating from the same year (...
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Did Harry Mulisch plagiarise other works in his novel The Assault / De aanslag?
In 1986, Harry Mulisch's 1982 novel De aanslag / The Assault was turned in to a film directed by Fons Rademakers. Screenwriter Gerard Soeteman said about the novel:
Ik heb het boek dan ook alleen ...
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Did Dante plagiarize the Divine Comedy from Kitab al-Miraj?
By looking up what the Kitab al-Miraj was, you can see many similarities to the Divine Comedy: a traveler's journey through the afterlife.
Is it possible that Dante plagiarized this work?
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Did Poe plagiarise someone else's work when writing "The Raven"?
I've read that Poe's been accused of lifting significant elements from many authors including Elizabeth Barrett, Charles Dickens, Leo Penzoni, and Thomas Holley Chivers (and "unknown," of course). ...
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