Meanings
- uncountableLiterature created by taking words, phrases, or passages from other sources and combining or editing them so as to impart new meaning.
French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation.
2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo2 more examples
Cohen embraced the clipping as a kind of found literature-an indigenous comic genre. "An Elder of Zion," a persona Cohen assumed in the journal in 1929, was also addicted to cutting tidbits out of the Jewish press,[…]
1981, Jacob Rader Marcus, Abraham Joseph Peck, Studies in the American Jewish Experience: Contributions from the Fellowship Programs of the American Jewish ArchivesInsertions of found literature reinforce this record of ephemerality: intermingling passages from advertisements, newspaper clippings, and songs within the narrators' musings, Dos Passos imitates how subjects moving through Manhattan might […]
2008, Journal of Narrative Theory: JNT, page 354
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