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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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism

• Plný název: Double Vision
• Podnázev: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests
• Autor: Darby Lewes
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 296
• EAN: 9780739125694
• ISBN: 0739125699
• ID: 04668914
• Nakladatelství: Lexington Books
• Hmotnost: 612 g
• Rozměry: 248 × 163 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 26. September 2008

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