Oh, yeah, the publisher and the author aren't very shocking in this. They're just resorting to ye olde "every stupid excuse is better than admitting a wrong" strategy. But everyone else? HOW CAN YOU BE SO DAFT OMG.
She did not participate in a shared tradition; she did not create intertextuality (which, after all, depends on establishing a reference between texts, not in deliberately hiding the fact that there are other texts involved). She appropriated someone else's work in order to benefit from it.
I want to know where these so-called experts bought their brains. They should return them; they're clearly defective.
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Date: 2010-02-10 06:07 pm (UTC)She did not participate in a shared tradition; she did not create intertextuality (which, after all, depends on establishing a reference between texts, not in deliberately hiding the fact that there are other texts involved). She appropriated someone else's work in order to benefit from it.
I want to know where these so-called experts bought their brains. They should return them; they're clearly defective.
I'm too young to die of apoplexy.
Yes, THIS. *tries not to explode*