Cento: a poetics of derivation
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
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| Description | Centos (i.e. patchwork texts made up of quotations taken from canonical authors) constituted a part of literary history from Greek and Roman antiquity until the eighteenth century. The paper discusses the somewhat controversial cento poetics in relation to the changing notions of originality and secondariness in literature (the ideal of imitation in classicist aesthetics versus the Romantic concept of creative genius). |