The Palimpsest

Author : Catherynne Valente
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553906295

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Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente Pdf

In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.… Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.

Author : Sarah Dillon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472528360

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The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory by Sarah Dillon Pdf

Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor. Sarah Dillon's original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which illuminates and advances modern thought. While demonstrating how this structure refigures concepts such as history, subjectivity, temporality, metaphor, textuality and sexuality, Dillon returns repeatedly to the question of reading. This theorisation is interwoven with close readings of texts by D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Ian McEwan and H.D. Clearly written, and negotiating a range of critical theories and modern literary texts, it provides a reference point and critical tool for future employment of the concept of 'palimpsestuousness', and makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the relationship between theoretical and critical writing on literature.

Author : Gilbert Augustin Thierry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89104446695

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The Palimpsest by Gilbert Augustin Thierry Pdf

Author : Inge Uytterhoeven,Alessandra Ricci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6057685849

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The Palimpsest of the House by Inge Uytterhoeven,Alessandra Ricci Pdf

An interdisciplinary reassessment of a vital and understudied field. Material remains of houses and textual evidence for private living are crucial to our understanding of the architectural and decorative characteristics of the ancient house and the way private space was used. As buildings in which both private and public activities could take place, ancient dwellings provide a window onto the social, economic, political, and religious aspects of societies. However, despite its invaluable significance for our knowledge of ancient times, housing still largely remains an underestimated field of research. This edited volume includes papers presented at the 8th International ANAMED Annual Symposium, held at Istanbul's Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in 2013. The contributions focus on the developments, continuities, and changes in private housing across the Mediterranean during Roman, Late Antique, and Early Islamic times. The volume sheds light on the interaction between houses of various regions and time periods, exploring the architectural features, layout and interior, and builders and users of private houses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Christian Stepien
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Palimpsest Mind Of Christian Stepien by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aleksandra Lun
Publisher : Verba Mundi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1567926525

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The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun Pdf

Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, has survived long Soviet toilet paper lines, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary community for his forays into novel-writing in their native tongue. In The Palimpsests, Aleksandra Lun's stunning debut novel, we find him languishing in a Belgium asylum (a country, we are persistently reminded, that has had no government for the past year!), undergoing Bartlebian therapy to strip away his knowledge of any language that is not Polish, his native tongue. Despite or perhaps because of its absurdity (by turns comic and tragic), The Palimpsests is characterized by an unquestionable timeliness, relevant to today's discussions about immigration, senses of cultural belonging and ownership, and personal relationships to language, complicated and simple, adopted and native. Peppered with darkly comic cameos from famous writers like Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and of course, Przesnicki's former lover Ernest Hemingway, it is the perfect book for lovers of language and the act of writing. Originally written in Spanish by Polish writer Aleksandra Lun, The Palimpsests has been expertly translated into English by Elizabeth Bryer.

Author : Angela Kimyongür,Amy Wigelsworth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443868631

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Rewriting Wrongs by Angela Kimyongür,Amy Wigelsworth Pdf

Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest furthers scholarly research into French crime fiction and, within that broad context, examines the nature, functions and specificity of the palimpsest. Originally a palaeographic phenomenon, the palimpsest has evolved into a figurative notion used to define any cultural artefact which has been reused but still bears traces of its earlier form. In her 2007 study The Palimpsest, Sarah Dillon refers to “the persistent fascination with palimpsests in the popular imagination, embodying as they do the mystery of the secret, the miracle of resurrection and the thrill of detective discovery”. In the context of crime fiction, the palimpsest is a particularly fertile metaphor. Because the practice of rewriting is so central to popular fiction as a whole, crime fiction is replete with hypertextual transformations. The palimpsest also has tremendous extra-diegetic resonance, in that crime fiction frequently involves the rewriting of criminal or historical events and scandals. This collection of essays therefore exemplifies and interrogates the various manifestations and implications of the palimpsest in French crime fiction.

Author : Reviel Netz,William Noel,Nigel Wilson,Natalie Tchernetska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107014379

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The Archimedes Palimpsest by Reviel Netz,William Noel,Nigel Wilson,Natalie Tchernetska Pdf

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts. This volume provides colour images and transcriptions of three of the texts recovered from it. Pride of place goes to the treatises of Archimedes, including the only Greek version of Floating Bodies, and the unique copies of Method and Stomachion. This transcription provides many different readings from those made by Heiberg from what he termed Codex C in his edition of the works of Archimedes of 1910-1915. Secondly, fragments of two previously unattested speeches by the Athenian orator Hyperides, which are the only Hyperides texts ever to have been found in a codex. Thirdly, a fragment from an otherwise unknown commentary on Aristotle's Categories. In each case advanced image-processing techniques have been used to create the images, in order to make the text underneath legible.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1596064218

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Palimpsest by Charles Stross Pdf

Welcome to the Stasis, the clandestine, near-omnipotent organization that stands at the heart of Charles Stross's Hugo Award-winning novella, Palimpsest. By mastering the mysteries of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered mankind away from the brink of utter extinction. Through countless millennia, through the "mayfly flickerings" of innumerable transient civilizations, its members have intervened at critical junctions, reseeding the galaxy with viable potential survivors. In the process, they have reconfigured the basic structure of the universe, all in the name of human continuity. Pierce is a newly recruited member of the Stasis, serving out a complex twenty- year apprenticeship while struggling to find his way through the paradoxical maze of history (and unhistory) that surrounds him. As his once simple existence expands and replicates over vast stretches of time, Pierce uncovers a new and unexpected destiny, one that will embroil him in the larger purposes of the Stasis and in the ultimate, unresolved fate of humanity itself. Skillfully merging the threads of an individual life with the grandest, most overarching concerns, Palimpsest offers both visionary brilliance and narrative excitement in equal measure. Powerfully imagined, beautifully constructed, and written throughout with great economy of means, it is the kind of mind-expanding mini-epic that only science fiction and only a master practitioner like Charles Stross could produce.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Iowa
ISBN : UCAL:B4519989

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The Palimpsest by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Bornstein,Ralph G. Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0472103717

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Palimpsest by George Bornstein,Ralph G. Williams Pdf

Distinguished scholars discuss editorial theory and how it is applied across the humanities

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226795416

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Prague Palimpsest by Alfred Thomas Pdf

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia. Considering a wide range of writers, including the city’s most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vítĕzslav Nezval, and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages with other famous authors who “wrote” Prague, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Camus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The result is a comparative, interdisciplinary study that helps to explain why Prague—more than any other major European city—has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.

Author : Matthew Battles
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393352924

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Palimpsest by Matthew Battles Pdf

A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia. Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under threat. But writing itself, despite striving for permanence, is always in the midst of growth and transfiguration. Celebrating the impulse to record, invent, and make one's mark, Matthew Battles reenchants the written word for all those susceptible to the power and beauty of writing in all of its forms.

Author : Matthew Battles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393089516

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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word by Matthew Battles Pdf

A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia. Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under threat. But writing itself, despite striving for permanence, is always in the midst of growth and transfiguration. Celebrating the impulse to record, invent, and make one's mark, Matthew Battles reenchants the written word for all those susceptible to the power and beauty of writing in all of its forms.

Author : Dominique Daniel,Amalia S. Levi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Archives
ISBN : 1936117851

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Identity Palimpsests by Dominique Daniel,Amalia S. Levi Pdf

At the theoretical level, the chapters discuss the impact of ethnic studies and evolving theories of ethnicity on archiving practices; the effect of ethnic archiving on historical research; and the emergence of memory studies as a lens for understanding identity. Both contemporary and historical perspectives are included.