This volume, entitled The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History, undertakes the pioneering task of employing the notion of palimpsest in the multi-layered and changing cultural landscape specific to East Central Europe. The multifarious readings presented in the collection, which evolved from a 2009 conference at the University of Chicago, contribute to a critical reframing of the origins, history and theory of the concept of the palimpsest. Beyond being viewed as an epistemological metaphor, the palimpsest reveals its potential to generate and engage a complex network of complementary meanings. The essays included in this collection probe the palimpsest across the ages, as well as in a variety of genres, media, and cultural spheres in order to revise and redefine our present understanding of the concept and its instantiations.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783631603406
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-631-60340-6
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2011
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2011
- Serie: Literary and Cultural Theory
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 550 g
- Seiten: 347
- Format (B x H): 148 x 210 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt