"found literature" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, Jacob Rader Marcus, Abraham Joseph Peck, Studies in the American Jewish Experience: Contributions from the Fellowship Programs of the American Jewish Archives",
          "text": "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,[…]",
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          "ref": "2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008, Journal of Narrative Theory: JNT, page 354",
          "text": "Insertions 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 […]",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Insertions 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 […]",
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