Double Vision
by Darby Lewes (Editor)Brian Bates (Contribution by)Liam Corley (Contribution by)Michael P. Farrell (Contribution by)Michael J. Flynn (Contribution by)Paul Fox (Contribution by)Diane Long Hoeveler (Contribution by)Erin Menut (Contribution by)Jeff Miles (Contribution by)Christy Rieger (Contribution by)Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (Contribution by)Zoe Trodd (Contribution by)William Wandless (Contribution by)Alex Watson (Contribution by)Christopher Whalen (Contribution by)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780739125694
Hardcover|9780739125694
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Overview
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.
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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780739125694 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0739125699 |
| Weight | 1.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.40 x 0.96 x 9.78 In |
| List Price | $142.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 296 pages |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Published On | 2008-09-26 |
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