Palimpsestuous

Quick meaning: Palimpsestuous is an adjective meaning Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• palimpcestuous
• palincestuous

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