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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