Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England : Collected Essays
ISBN: 9780230118805
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

RAELEEN CHAI-ELSHOLZ An independent scholar and technical translator, Chai-Elsholz recently contributed several entries for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

TATJANA SILEC Assistant Professor at the Sorbonne, France.

LEO CARRUTHERS Professor of English at the Sorbonne, France. He is the President of the French Association for Medieval English Studies.

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