Denise Diokno
AVT 180-006
Summary
In Lentham’s article,
he begins by showing the overlap and similarities between Nabakov’s popular
novel Lolita, with a previous work by
Heinz von Lichberg published 40 years prior. He continues to show that there is
no completely pure and original idea; music, movies and poetry (and he believes
it may apply to all of art) all borrow elements of each other. Could other
things be viewed as “borrowing” rather than “plagiarism.” For example, things
that one draws upon from their culture, or when a photographer take a photograph
of something. Lentham continues to prove
that there really is no such thing as an original idea or intellectual
property. Everything was from either from our culture, given to us, or from an
old unknown text. We unconsciously draw from other sources. He makes this
metaphor that life, and art is this huge collage. It is woven in with each
other and sourced and cited. Towards the end of his article, Lentham proves
exactly this. He cites, and shows that the majority of this article is borrowed
from other text. The main idea of his article is supported and summarized by
using Donne’s quote “All mankind is of
one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out
of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be
so translated. . . .”
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