Imitating Authors

Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors Colin Burrow gives us an
original literary history of imitation from an esteemed scholar and
literary critic and a fascinating account of how authors from the
earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have
imitated each other. This book covers an impressive range of
writers including Plato, Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch, Cervantes,
Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo
Ishiguro. Burrow offers clear explanations of difficult concepts
and complex histories and explains key concepts which enabled
classical texts to have an influence on later writing and brings
the discussion up to date by studying contemporary fictions about
clones and imitation human beings and the future of imitation.