Wednesday, November 11, 2009
In Response to Peter...
I don't believe Shelley Jackson was ever looking for herself in the article. I could see how this could be thought though. In the beginning of her article, their seems to be an identity crisis going on, but that seems to be written for the purpose of making a point. The point being that it doesn't matter who the author of the article is, call her whatever you want (Shelley Shelley), because all writer reuse and rework the ideas of other writers. This is especially true when writing in hypertext. Later in her article, Shelley Jackson even encourages her article to be plagiarised. This just solidifies her point that writers are working off of each other even more in the digital age.
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I agree with you, and to infer even further, I believe that Shelley Jackson is also saying that a writer can convey any personality he/she wants. This helps while he/she plagiarizes another person’s work because that writer is allowed to write in the mindset of the original writer that he/she stole the work from. Through all the pieces of writing he/she produces, a single writer can convey any personality, at any time. So, sometimes Shelley Jackson can write in the mindset of a writer creating her own original work, or Shelley, Shelley, a plagiarist.
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