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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... relationality embodied by ' of ' . Its editors explain that the primary sense of ' of ' , meaning ' away ' or ' away from ' , is now obsolete . All existing uses are derived from this primary sense but are often ' so remote as to retain ...
... relationality , existence and beings , even Being itself.15 According to the logic of this relationality , in the quasi - metaphorical con- struction ' house of being ' , ' house ' is no longer transported to ' Being ' , nor is ' Being ...
... relationality represented in and by the palimpsest . As a catachrestic perversion of the ' proper ' adjective from ' palimpsest ' - ' palimpsestic ' - the word ' palimpsestuous ' bears within it the sign of that catachresis ...
Contents
A Brief History of Palimpsests | 10 |
The Palimpsest of the Mind | 23 |
On Poetry and Metaphor | 44 |
Copyright | |
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