Palimpsests and the literary imagination of medieval england: collected essays
Auteur :
Silec, Tatjana / Chai-Elsholz, R. / Carruthers, L.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349286447
Date de publication :
31 mars 2011
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.