The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory

by Sarah Dillon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826495451
• ISBN13: 9780826495457
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"