Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Homage, Appropriation, and Influence || Radcliffe Institute

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Margot Livesey RI '13 delivers the 2012--2013 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities with introductory remarks by Claire Messud RI '05.

Livesey's long fascination with questions of influence, borrowing, and homage took on new urgency as she worked on her most recent novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy—a reimagining of Jane Eyre set in 1960s Scotland. In this video, Livesey discusses some of the choices she made in writing her novel and what we think we can gain (and lose) by borrowing from our fellow artists—present and posthumous.

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