Spelling out amnesia, or “forgetting me on the pretext of understanding me”

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16500
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amnesia memory forgetting Apostolos Lampropoulos
Apostolos Lampropoulos
University of Cyprus
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Author Biography
Apostolos Lampropoulos, University of Cyprus
Apostolos Lampropoulos is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Cyprus. He has also taught at the University Paris X, the University of Patras and the Free University of Berlin. He has published the monograph Le Pari de la description (L’Harmattan, 2002) as well as thetranslation in Greek of A. Compagnon’s Le Démon de la théorie (Metaichmio, 2002) and J. Culler’s On Deconstruction (Metaichmio, 2006). He has co-edited the volume States of Theory (with Antonis Balasopoulos; Metaichmio, 2010) and is currently preparing the volumes AutoBioPhagies (with May Chehab; Peter Lang), and Textual Layering (with Maria Margaroni and Christos Hadjichristos; Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield). His research interests include literary and cultural theory, as well as body and film studies.
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