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Anticipatory plagiarism

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Source revisionMay 28, 2025
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Anticipatory plagiarism is a concept first introduced by the Oulipo group of poets. The concept involves the study of historical literature to uncover works which either use, or refer to, constraint- or rule-based writing methods as defined by members of the Oulipo group. The Oulipo poets called these past writers 'anticipatory plagiarists'.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anticipatory plagiarism” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.