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Certain Personal Matters - The Theory of Quotation
In which the nature and practice of quotation in literature are examined with a wry eye, revealing the incongruities and paradoxes inherent in repeating another’s words within one’s own work. A case is made, in a manner both shrewd and whimsical, for the subtle art of unacknowledged borrowing as the truest form of literary homage and honesty.
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