The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, TheoryDrawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor. Sarah Dillon's original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which illuminates and advances modern thought. While demonstrating how this structure refigures concepts such as history, subjectivity, temporality, metaphor, textuality and sexuality, Dillon returns repeatedly to the question of reading. This theorisation is interwoven with close readings of texts by D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Ian McEwan and H.D. |
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... the uncanny state of ' living on ' described by Derrida as , ' a reprieve or an after- life , " life after life " or life after death , more life or more than life , and better ; the state of suspension in which [ life is ] over and ...
... the uncanny and the culture theory of postmodernism ' ( 2007 , p . 1 ) . Currie maintains that it is in relation to contemporary fiction in particular that such an analysis of time is necessary , specifically in the light of ' the ...
... The Uncanny . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Russell , Charles William ( 1867 ) , ' Palimpsest literature , and its editor , Cardinal Angelo Mai ' , in The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art . London : Bell and Daldy ...
Contents
A Brief History of Palimpsests | 10 |
The Palimpsest of the Mind | 23 |
On Poetry and Metaphor | 44 |
Copyright | |
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