The novel Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow, is our current reading material in AmCon. Now, I have done some digging, and found a juicy bit of info. And I quote from Wikipedia:
"The first name of Coalhouse Walker is a literary reference to the German novella Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist. Many events and plot points are drawn from this story. It has been argued that this is an example of plagiarism on Doctorow's part."
Naturally, I had to find out about Michael Kohlhaas. I found it here. I shall be reading it, and when I am done I will be writing more about this in a further update to this post. Keep watching!
***UPDATE***
Okay, not plagiarism. It is actually just a rewrite within a story. The Coalhouse Walker plot is identical to the Michael Kohlaas plot.
"The first name of Coalhouse Walker is a literary reference to the German novella Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist. Many events and plot points are drawn from this story. It has been argued that this is an example of plagiarism on Doctorow's part."
Naturally, I had to find out about Michael Kohlhaas. I found it here. I shall be reading it, and when I am done I will be writing more about this in a further update to this post. Keep watching!
***UPDATE***
Okay, not plagiarism. It is actually just a rewrite within a story. The Coalhouse Walker plot is identical to the Michael Kohlaas plot.
When is an allusion plagiarism? What about the "quote" from Revel in the piece we heard on Tuesday night? LDL
ReplyDeleteI repeat my earlier phrase "I quote from Wikipedia".
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