Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England [electronic resource] : Collected Essays /
Silec, Tatjana.author.
Chai-Elsholz, R.author.
Carruthers, L.author.
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.
Dedicated to André Crépin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
pt. 1. Permanence and impermanence of writing on the page -- pt. 2. Impermanence and accumulation in the literary imagination.
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.
Literature, Medieval.
Great Britain—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
British literature.
Classical literature.
Medieval Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medieval Europe.
British and Irish Literature.
Classical and Antique Literature.