Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest

KIMYONGÜR, Angela and WIGELSWORTH, Amy, eds. (2014). Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Abstract

Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest furthers scholarly research into French crime fiction and, within that broad context, examines the nature, functions and specificity of the palimpsest. Originally a palaeographic phenomenon, the palimpsest has evolved into a figurative notion used to define any cultural artefact which has been reused but still bears traces of its earlier form. In her 2007 study The Palimpsest, Sarah Dillon refers to “the persistent fascination with palimpsests in the popular imagination, embodying as they do the mystery of the secret, the miracle of resurrection and the thrill of detective discovery”. In the context of crime fiction, the palimpsest is a particularly fertile metaphor. Because the practice of rewriting is so central to popular fiction as a whole, crime fiction is replete with hypertextual transformations. The palimpsest also has tremendous extra-diegetic resonance, in that crime fiction frequently involves the rewriting of criminal or historical events and scandals. This collection of essays therefore exemplifies and interrogates the various manifestations and implications of the palimpsest in French crime fiction.

Item Type: Edited Book
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Sheffield Business School > Department of Management
Depositing User: Amy Wigelsworth
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2015 13:10
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 05:51
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10475

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