Widma plagiatu : Lowes - Irzykowski - Eliot

This article problematizes the figure of the spectre as it appears in the context of Modernist debates on influence, plagiarism and originality in poetry. Jakubowiak analyses theoretical essays by Karol Irzykowski and T.S. Eliot as well as John Livingstone Lowes’s The Road to Xanadu. In these texts the spectre does not play the role of a central figure - in fact it appears rather sporadically. And yet, its presence allows us to reformulate problems of influence and imitation and expressively to reconstruct nuanced strategies regarding these phenomena. Jakubowiak’s theoretical framework is Jacques Derrida’s The Spectres of Marx, with a particular focus on aspects highlighted by Derrida, such as the notions anachronism and muddled origins activated in the title.