The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, TheoryBloomsbury Academic, 25 dic 2007 - 176 pagine Drawing 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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A Brief History of Palimpsests | 10 |
The Palimpsest of the Mind | 23 |
On Poetry and Metaphor | 44 |
Copyright | |
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