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Double Vision

- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests
Engelsk Hardback

Double Vision

- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests
Engelsk Hardback
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A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass, in order to explore the dualistic thinking involved in the creation of literary palimpsests during the tempestuous eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contributors to this collection analyze the alienation and disorientation caused by the tremendous social and political revolution going on throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States and Great Britain. Writers and philosophers of the time were charged with the task of reorienting themselves and their readers within the ever-changing social and political constructs that characterized their lives. Double Vision shows how these writers employed the use of the palimpsest in their attempts to strike a balance between preserving old ways and privileging new innovations.
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A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass, in order to explore the dualistic thinking involved in the creation of literary palimpsests during the tempestuous eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contributors to this collection analyze the alienation and disorientation caused by the tremendous social and political revolution going on throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States and Great Britain. Writers and philosophers of the time were charged with the task of reorienting themselves and their readers within the ever-changing social and political constructs that characterized their lives. Double Vision shows how these writers employed the use of the palimpsest in their attempts to strike a balance between preserving old ways and privileging new innovations.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 296
ISBN-13: 9780739125694
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0739125699
Kategori: Litteraturhistorie og kritik
Udg. Dato: 26 sep 2008
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 26 sep 2008
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Kategori Litteraturhistorie og kritik

ISBN-13 9780739125694

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 296

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 237mm

Højde 158mm

Udg. Dato 26 sep 2008

Oplagsdato 26 sep 2008

Forlag Lexington Books

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