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The article offers the author's insights on the enactment of mimicry or counterfeits in the book "Great Expectations," by Charles Dickens. The author states that the book shows the disintegration and institution of class and colonial relations in the capitalist and imperialist economies. The author contends that such depiction is associated with the acts of counterfeiting and forgery by producing disturbing imitations, destabilizing subjectivity and authoritative identities.

This article discusses how quixotic writers on either side of the Atlantic used transformative imitative technique to address a critical issue of transnational imitation and to foreground national and gender differences. The author states that the three writing practices he discussed suggest that there is a history of writing which invites further work. The author also consider the requirements of the construction of autochthonous and original national literatures.

Imitative texts of high quality are of some importance to students of attribution, especially those who use computational methods. The authorship of such texts is always likely to be difficult to demonstrate. In some cases, the identity of the author is a question of interest to literary scholars. Even when that is not so, students of attribution face a challenge. If we cannot distinguish between original and imitation in such cases, we must always concede that an imitator may have been at work. Shamela (1741) has always been regarded as a brilliant parody. When it is subjected to our standard common-words tests of authorship, it yields mixed results. A new procedure, in which special word-lists are established according to a predetermined set of rules, proves more effective. It needs, however, to be tried in other cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the stylization and mimicry in the Russian literary theory. Distinction of the Russian concept of stylization; Literary works that are exempted from analysis of stylization; Poets that are considered as stylizers.

This essay states that novelist Raymond Chandler had borrowed some of his ideas for the novel "The Big Sleep" from "The Mystery of Cloomber," a novella by Arthur Conan Doyle. Rats behind the wainscoting, one of the most famous images in Chandler's novel "The Big Sleep" was taken from "The Mystery of Cloomber." "The Big Sleep" is about the Sternwoods, a doomed family over whom death hovers ominously. What Chandler borrowed from Doyle's novella is the mood of inevitable doom that is beyond the characters' power to prevent or even understand.

The article presents abstracts of some papers on poets. One of the paper entitled, "Pope and Plagiarism," by Richard Terry, discusses English poet Alexander Pope's general sensitivity to the ethics of literary borrowing and the numerous accusations of plagiarism that were made against him in his lifetime. It also considers Pope's use of the plagiarism allegation as part of his own satiric practice. Finally, it explore the way that critical writing in the later eighteenth century, especially in the aftermath of Joseph Warton's influential critique, comes to define the nature of Pope's achievement in terms of an inherently plagiaristic aesthetic. Another paper entitled, "T. S. Eliot on the Limits of Criticism: The Anomalous 'Experiment' of 1929," by Ashley Marshall, argues that Eliot's essays represent a major departure from his usual conflicted position in the 1920s and 1930s about the objects of criticism. He seems quickly to have come to regard the essay as a misconceived failure. Emphasis has been laid upon the productivity of that failure in propelling him towards a revised and nuanced understanding of criticism and of his place in tradition.

Professors spend many hours grading student papers and reviewing scholarly work submitted for publication. In addition to providing constructive, informative, and engaging critiques, professors must be aware of a broader literature to enforce academic standards of attribution and integrity. Adopting the mindset to support plagiarism detection???skeptically looking for the source of an unusually well written paragraph, for example???is incompatible with a sympathetic, constructive effort to help authors improve their work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]