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palimpsest (păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus ; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I am grateful for Jonathan Goldberg's early treatment of palimpsestic sexual competition between and among the sexes; see "Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs," his prescient essay on the topos of triangulation and homosocial/ homosexual desire in the play that contests well-rehearsed heterocentric critical readings. Indeed, Gatten's palimpsestic films showcase an array of cinematic processes that constitute a parallel (if idiosyncratic and incomplete) survey of the medium's history, tracing some of its technical developments and placing them within a larger movement from text to image. A sense of discontinuous history and cultural hybridization produced by a palimpsestic journey of imperialism, cultural imposition, diasporic movement, and assimilation obliges writers to work within a heterogeneous overlapping of cultures with their attendant myths, religious and ethical philosophies, aesthetic ideologies, narrative forms, political systems, and economic modes. |
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