{"product_id":"imitating-authors-plato-to-futurity-hardcover","title":"Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Burrow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImitating Authors\u003c\/em\u003e is a major study of the theory and practice of \u003cem\u003eimitatio \u003c\/em\u003e(the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eImitating Authors \u003c\/em\u003eargues that imitation was not simply a matter of borrowing words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learnt practices from earlier writers. They imitated the structures and forms of earlier writing in ways that enabled them to create a new style which itself could be imitated. That made imitation an engine of literary change. \u003cem\u003eImitating Authors\u003c\/em\u003e also shows how the metaphors used by theorists to explain this complex practice fed into works which were themselves imitations, and how those metaphors have come to influence present-day anxieties about imitation human beings and artificial forms of intelligence. It explores relationships between imitation and authorial style, its fraught connections with plagiarism, and how emerging ideas of genius and intellectual property changed how imitation was practised. In refreshing and jargon-free prose Burrow explains not just what imitation was in the past, but how it influences the present, and what it could be in the\u003cbr\u003efuture. \u003cem\u003eImitating Authors\u003c\/em\u003e includes detailed discussion of Plato, Roman rhetorical theory, Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColin Burrow, \u003cem\u003eSenior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of \u003cem\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for \u003cem\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257472606310,"sku":"9780198838081","price":122.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/eGJFODdBUWlXYWVMYWVoN0VGanIrdz09.webp?v=1773777032","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/imitating-authors-plato-to-futurity-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}