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Author Genette, Gérard, 1930-2018.

Title Palimpsests : literature in the second degree / Gérard Genette ; translated by Channa Newman & Claude Doubinsky ; foreword by Gerald Prince.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1997]
©1997

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 Moore Stacks  PN166 .G4613 1997    Available  ---
Description xi, 490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Stages ; v. 8
Stages (Series) ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-471) and index.
Contents Five types of transtexuality, among which hypertextuality -- A few precautions -- Parodia in Aristotle -- Birth of parody? -- Parody as a literary figure -- Development of the vulgate -- General chart of hypertextual practices -- Brief parodies -- Oulipian games -- One word for another -- Niagara: A novel -- Burlesque travesty -- Modern travesties -- Imitation as a literary figure -- A text cannot be imitated directly -- Difficulties in distinguishing modes in mimotexts -- Caricatures -- Pastiches -- Flaubert by Proust -- Pastiche in the form of variations -- Self-pastiche -- Fictitious pastiches -- The mock-heroic -- Mixed parody -- The antiromance -- Play It Again, Sam -- La Chasse spirituelle -- Continuations -- Endings for L Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu -- La Fin de Lamiel -- Cyclical continuations -- The Aeneid, Telemachus -- Andromaque, je pense à vous -- Unfaithful continuations -- Murderous continuations -- The Non-Existent Knight -- Supplement -- Sequel, epilogue, Lotte in Weimar -- Generic reactivation -- Transposition -- Translation -- Versification -- Prosification -- Transmetrification -- Transtylization -- Quantitative transformations -- Excision -- Concision -- Condensation -- Digest -- Proust to Mme Scheikévitch -- Pseudosummary in Borges -- Extension -- Expansion -- Amplification -- Ambiguous practices -- Intermodal transmodalization -- Laforgue's Hamlet -- Intramodal transmodalization -- Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- Diegetic transposition, starting with sex -- Proximization -- Pragmatic transformation -- Unamuno, author of Quixote -- Motivation -- Demotivation -- Transmotivation -- Eulogies of Helen -- Secondary valuation -- Devaluation -- Macbett -- Aragon, author of Télémaque -- Naissance de l'Odyssée -- Transvaluation -- Penthesilea -- New supplements -- A baffling hypertext -- Hyperesthetic practices .
Summary "By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gerard Genette's most important works, examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Imitation in literature.
Imitation in literature.
Parody.
Parody.
Genre/Form Sequels (Literature)
Subject Literature -- Adaptations.
Literature -- Adaptations.
Added Title Palimpsestes. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96113077
Other Form: Online version: Genette, Gérard, 1930- Palimpsestes. English. Palimpsests. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605192222
Online version: Genette, Gérard, 1930- Palimpsestes. English. Palimpsests. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997 (OCoLC)606205412
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