Palimpsests : literature in the second degree / / Gérard Genette ; translated by Channa Newman & Claude Doubinsky ; foreword by Gerald Prince [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248055803316
• Autore: Genette Gérard <1930-2018.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 490 p. ) : ill.
• Collana: Stages ; ; v. 8
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetti: Imitation in literature; Parody; Sequels (Literature); Literature - Adaptations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Editions du Seuil, 1982.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-471) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--Jacket.