Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature.
Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature.
Abbreviations ... v A Note on Translations... vi Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1 Historical Context and Precedent Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism Writing to Write 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66 Zero Prefaces Ambiguous Prefaces Poetic Prefaces Embedded Prefaces Belated Prefaces A Hypertrophic Preface 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144 Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch Reviewers and Readers Writers and Preface-Writers Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory) 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237 Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800 Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing A New Style of Preface Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content A Superior Preface Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms Post-Structuralist Postscript Conclusion... 311 Acknowledgements ... 328 Bibliography ... 330 Index ... 371 About the Author ... 372
Abbreviations ... v A Note on Translations... vi Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1 Historical Context and Precedent Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism Writing to Write 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66 Zero Prefaces Ambiguous Prefaces Poetic Prefaces Embedded Prefaces Belated Prefaces A Hypertrophic Preface 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144 Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch Reviewers and Readers Writers and Preface-Writers Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory) 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237 Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800 Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing A New Style of Preface Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content A Superior Preface Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms Post-Structuralist Postscript Conclusion... 311 Acknowledgements ... 328 Bibliography ... 330 Index ... 371 About the Author ... 372
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