Meaning of palimpsestuous | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.

Examples

“But this missive from Boston may be taken as a palimpcestuous précis of Finnegans Wake⟳ itself”

“In a palimpsestuous reading, the hypertext, or the original, always stands to gain⟳ by having its hypertextual status perceived.”

“All adaptations are palimpsestuous (Hutcheon 2006), and Holmes's “are perhaps the most palimpsestuous of all popular-cultural reworkings" (McCaw 2013:36)”

“Nonetheless, Tuyen combines the planned part of her artwork, the book of longings, with found objects and parts of previous projects, which again makes the artwork resemble⟳ a more palimpsestuous structure⟳.”

“What renders these poems valuable in a post-Writing Culture context of contested cultural representation is a peculiar, palimpsestuous quality.”

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