Authors:Gerard Genette,  Channa Newman, Claude Doubins
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: stages, degree, second, literature, palimpsests
Number of Pages: 491
Published: 1997-10-28
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0803270291
ISBN-13: 9780803270299

By definition, a palimpsest is �a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible.� Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of G�rard Genette�s most important works, examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual rela

Author: Andreas Huysse
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, politics, palimpsests, pasts, urban
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804745617
ISBN-13: 9780804745611

Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York�three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city�s reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value o