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'.
The paradoxical concept of anticipatory plagiarism has more recently been proposed as an analytical tool with reference to Russian studies.
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
References
- Terry, Philip (2020). The Penguin Book of Oulipo. UK: Penguin Classics (published 2019). pp. xvii. ISBN 978-0-241-37845-8.
- Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin, eds. (2017). The afterlives of Georges Perec. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-4744-0125-8.
- Maguire, Muireann (18 June 2021). Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature. United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781800641228.
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