ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors look at ways in which one can recycle texts in creative writing. By recycling texts the authors mean enriching the reader own writing by incorporating texts by other people. Relevant here is the concept of intertextuality. Recycling texts is a way of milking this relationship between the text that one are creating and those that other people have written. It’s also a way of building ideas without having to depend only on student's own thoughts. Collage became prominent in the visual arts and in literature in the early part of the twentieth century. Part of the modernist movement, it was a technique used by the artists Braque, Picasso, Kurt Schwitters and others in the early 1900s, and was also taken up by modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
