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Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique
Maria Margaroni
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Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of layering, a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of layering, the chapters in this book return ... Read more
Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of layering, a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of layering, the chapters in this book return ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Textures: Philosophy/Literature/Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781498501330
SKU
V9781498501330
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About Maria Margaroni
Christos Hadjichristos is associate professor of architecture at the University of Cyprus. Apostolos Lampropoulos is professor of comparative literary and cultural studies at the University Bordeaux Montaigne. Maria Margaroni is associate professor in literary theory and feminist thought at the University of Cyprus.
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