Article: Sources, Influences and Originality: Issues in Critical Controversies.(Critical essay)

I wrote several parts of "Heavensgate" under the spell of Debussy, Caesar, Frank and Ravel...

Christopher Okigbo. (1)

INTRODUCTION

Rene Wellek and Austin Warren in their Theory of Literature perceive sources and influences as the most obvious relationships between works of art. They locate plagiarism among other things as the least interesting manifestation in literary relationship. (2) Tracing the history of sources and influences, the theorists affirm that recurrent themes and images have been handed down from antiquity through the Latin Middle Ages and permeate all modern literature. Wellek and Warren further establish various authors' ...

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