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> From: frazier melissa <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: possible plagiarism
> Date: 15 December 1998 14:30
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am hoping someone out there can help me. Yesterday I received what
> purported to be the draft of a final paper on Solzhenitsyn and Tolstoi. No
> eighteen-year-old could have written this paper and certainly not in the
> one week this student gave it; unfortunately I have very little time to
> figure out where he got it from, and I am hoping that some of you might
> have some suggestions -- in particular I know very little about possible
> Internet sources. The paper argues Solzhenitsyn's debt to 19th c Russian
> writers and in particular Tolstoi with special attention to _Cancer Ward_
> and _War and Peace_. Similarities between the two authors mentioned
> include didacticism, use of characters (like Pierre) to make the reader
> feel familiar with unfamiliar situations (like Borodino), ideas about the
> value of education and ideas about love (here the author points out a
> difference, that Tolstoi argues for love of family and Solzhenitsyn for
> love of all). The paper concludes with a nod to Dostoevsky and the
> question of the existence of evil in _Cancer Ward_. While the paper
> doesn't actually cite them, the bibliography includes an article
> (unfortunately not in our library) by Kathryn Feuer, "Solzhenitsyn and the
> Legacy of Tolstoy" -- other names on the list include Belinkov, Harari,
> Weisdorff.
>
> If any of this rings a bell with any of you, or if you know of any possible
> websites where my student might have found this paper, I would be very
> grateful if you could let me know off-line at [log in to unmask]
>
> Thank you,
>
> Melissa Frazier
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