Tag: Palimpsest

Free Download Catherynne Valente, "Palimpsest: A Novel"
English | 2009 | pages: 367 | ISBN: 0553385763 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss….

Free Download Alfred Thomas, "Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City"
English | 2010 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 0226795403 | PDF | 0,8 mb
A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten-from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde-Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.

Free Download Leonor María Martínez Serrano, "Modern Ecopoetry Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World "
English | ISBN: 9004445269 | 2021 | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World explores the fruitful dialogue between poetry and the more-than-human world from various critical standpoints in modern English-writing poets from diverse backgrounds such as the USA, the UK, Canada, India, and Pakistan.