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245 00 $aPalimpsests and the literary imagination of medieval England :$bcollected essays /$cedited by Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
300 $axx, 267 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aThe new Middle Ages
500 $aDedicated to André Crépin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
520 $a"Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, for their original inscription was rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. Erasure is a prerequisite of reinscription; destruction paves the way for renewal. Thus the palimpsest is an image of the processes of revision and accretion which shape medieval literary production. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. Whether palimpsests are the primary focus of study or serve as a metaphor for various phenomena of loss and accumulation, all the essays investigate the process of reinscription. "--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: pt. I Permanence and Impermanence of Writing on the Page -- 1.An Anglo-Saxon Palimpsest from Fleury: Orleans, Bibliotheque Municipale MS 342 (290) / Adrian Papahagi -- 2.Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools, and Techniques / Peter A. Stokes -- 3.Some Psalter Glosses in Their Immediate Context / Jane Roberts -- 4.The Palimpsest and Old English Homiletic Composition / Paul E. Szarmach -- 5."Ic Beda"..."Cwæo Beda": Reinscribing Bede in the Old English Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum / Sharon M. Rowley -- 6.Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England / Florence Bourgne -- pt. II Impermanence and Accumulation in the Literary Imagination -- 7.Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance / Leo Carruthers -- 8.Palimpsestic Philomela: Reinscription in Chaucer's "Legend of Philomela" / Gila Aloni -- 9.The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin / Claire Vial -- 10.Enquiries into the Textual History of the Seventeenth-Century Sir Lambewell (London, British Library, Additional 27897) / Colette Stevanovitch -- 11.Elucidations: Bringing to Light the Aesthetic Underwriting of the Matiere de Bretagne in John Boorman's Excalibur / Jean-Marc Elsholz.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xSources.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xSources.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xSources.
650 0 $aPalimpsests.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts$xHistory.
700 1 $aCarruthers, Leo M.
700 1 $aChai-Elsholz, Raeleen,$d1967-
700 1 $aSilec, Tatjana,$d1976-
830 0 $aNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2010039074-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2010039074-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2010039074-t.html