%0 Book
%A Bozena Shallcross
%A Ryszard Nycz
%D 2011
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T The Effect of Palimpsest
%B Culture, Literature, History
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107576
%X 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.
%K psychoanalysis, theatre, cultural translation, theory of literature
%G English