palimpsestuous

comparative more palimpsestuous · superlative most palimpsestuous · alternative palimpcestuous · alternative palincestuous

1. Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.

   But this missive from Boston may be taken as a palimpcestuous précis of Finnegans Wake itself

   1965, Anthony Burgess, “ALP and her Letter”, in Re Joyce, page 210

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   In a palimpsestuous reading, the hypertext, or the original, always stands to gain by having its hypertextual status perceived.

   2001, Christine Olga Kiebuzinska, Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 31

   All adaptations are palimpsestuous (Hutcheon 2006), and Holmes's “are perhaps the most palimpsestuous of all popular-cultural reworkings" (McCaw 2013:36)

   2013, Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, quoting McCaw, Holmes and the Ripper: Versus Narratives, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 97

   Nonetheless, Tuyen combines the planned part of her artwork, the book of longings, with found objects and parts of previous projects, which again makes the artwork resemble a more palimpsestuous structure.

   2021 April 20, Lena Mattheis, Translocality in Contemporary City Novels, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 68

   What renders these poems valuable in a post-Writing Culture context of contested cultural representation is a peculiar, palimpsestuous quality.

   2021, A. Elisabeth Reichel, Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives, →ISBN, page 207