Anticipatory plagiarism
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Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept first introduced by the Oulipo group of poets. The concept involves the study of historical literature to uncover works which either use, or refer to, constraint- or rule-based writing methods as defined by members of the Oulipo group. The Oulipo poets called these past writers 'anticipatory plagiarists'.[1][2]
The paradoxical concept of anticipatory plagiarism has more recently been proposed as an analytical tool with reference to Russian studies.[3]
List of anticipatory plagiarists (according to the Oulipo group)
- Jonathan Swift and his literary invention called The Engine, in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels
- Joe Brainard's I Remember
- François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
