The Effect of Palimpsest

Bozena Shallcross, Associate Professor of Polish Literature at the University of Chicago, works in the area of 20th century Polish literature and cultural studies, with a particular focus on the questions of identity and material culture. Ryszard Nycz is Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University and at the Institute for Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a literary and cultural theorist whose research interests include anthropology and literature, modernism and postmodernism.

Contents: Bozena Shallcross/Ryszard Nycz: An Editorial Preamble - Ryszard Nycz: The Palimpsest and the Spiderweb: Two Dimensions ot the Textualisation of Experience - Justyna Beinek: Inscribing, Engraving, Cutting: The Polish Romantic Album as Palimpsest - Colleen McQuillen: Reading Dostoevsky's «Gentle Spirit»: Piotr Dumala's Kinesthetic Palimpsest and the Politics of Artistic Appropriation - Malynne Sternstein: Christ's Trials of NATO, or, Graffiti as a Spoliating Palimpsest? - Alfred Thomas: A Stranger in Prague: Writing and the Politics of Identity in Apollinaire, Kafka, and Camus - Tamara Trojanowska: Performing Urban Palimpsest: City, History, and the Perils of Abundance - Michal Pawel Markowski: Wiping Out: The Palimpsest, the Subject, and the Art of Forgetting - Agata Bielik-Robson: The Psychic Palimpsest: Freud, Derrida and Bloom on the Textual Metaphor of the Soul - Julia Vaingurt: Indelible Inscriptions: Rewriting the Self in Mandelstam's «The Egyptian Stamp» - Danuta Ulicka: Who is the Author? - Bozena Karwowska: The Holocaust Story as a Palimpsest: The Case of The Woman Passenger - Jack Hutchens: Transgressions: Palimpsest and the Destruction of Gender and National Identity in Tokarczuk's Dom dzienny, dom nocny - Karen Underhill: Writing in the Third Language: On the Space between Sacred and Profane in Gershom Scholem and Jacqes Derrida - Hanna Gosk: Polish Post-dependent Palimpsests: A Reading of Tadeusz Konwicki and Dorota Maslowska's Novels from the Postcolonial Perspective - George Gasyna: Narrative as Transgression in Witold Gombrowicz's Kosmos and Michel Houellebecq's Les particules élémentaires - Tomasz Bilczewski: The Effect of Translation: Palimpsest, Hybrid, and Afterlife - Clare Cavanagh: Polishness as Palimpsest: Czeslaw Milosz and the Language of Paradise - Joanna Trzeciak: Self-Translation as Palimpsest in Nabokov's Despair - Pawel Molcicki: Palimpsest of the Century: Aleksander Wat and the Quest for Utopia.