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Alain Severac, « Palimpsests: Introduction », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10670/1.yj1rgy
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From Homer’s epic or the Bible to the first scribbles of the learner, every written text is a palimpsest of earlier texts or legends, of models slavishly imitated or deliberately departed from. Gérard Genette examined the main classical forms of palimpsest in his eponymous essay, specifying that the word was there used with a figurative meaning. But the advent of new literatures, conveniently labelled post-colonial, and/or postmodern (whatever this term may mean), has shown that a number of ...