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Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England

Collected Essays
By:Tatjana Silec; R. Chai-Elsholz; L. Carruthers
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230100268
eText ISBN:9780230118805
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.