Jason Christie offers the term “plundergraphia” to refer to the literary uses of found material:
“I believe it is necessary at the outset,” he writes, “to demonstrate
how plundergraphia is distinct from plagiarism and reference, and shares little more than intention with found poetry.
"Plagiarism requires a person to desire to conceal a source for his or
her benefit. … Found poetry appropriates previously conceived material
into new arrangements but is still dependent upon the final product as
product.
"Plundergraphia is a more general praxis that situates words in a new context where they are changed by their transformation.
Christie
identifies Ronald Johnson’s treatment of Milton’s Paradise Lost as
having a plundergraphic attitude toward an original source: Johnson’s
“transformations of the original distort it beyond legibility into an
entirely new creative expression."
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