Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

The Social Dimensions of Fiction

On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French Canadian novel prefaces, a previously unexplored literary topic. As a study in Comparative Literature - with the application of a specific literary framework and methodology - the study conforms to theoretical and methodological postulates formulated in and prescribed by this framework when applied. This a priori postulate necessitates that the research on and the presentation of the Canadian novel preface be carried out in a specific manner, as follows. First, the study will establish the hypothesis that the preface to nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novels is a genre in its own right. This hypothesis will rest on the following: 1) a taxonomical survey of related terms meaning "preface"; 2) a survey of secondary Iiterature of works dealing with the preface; 3) a discussion of the theoretical framework and methodology of the Empirical Theory of Literature and its appropriateness for the study of the preface; and 4) a discussion of the process of the compilation of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). In a second step, the theoretical postulate outlined in the hypothesis will be put into practice by the development and production of a preface typology (Chapter two). In a third step, further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature will be tested on the corpus of the prefaces (Chapter three). In a fourth step, the prefaces will be analysed following the tenets formulated in and prescribed by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four).

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Produktdetails

• Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft 15
• Verlag: Vieweg+Teubner / Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-528-07335-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9783528073350
• ISBN-10: 3528073357
• Artikelnr.: 27172999

Inhaltsangabe

The Theoretical Foundations of the Study of Prefaces and the Corpus of the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces.- A Typology of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces.- Systemic Data in the Canadian Novel Prefaces.- Analysis of the Systemic Dimensions of the Preface Typologies and of the Systemic Data of the Prefaces.- Conclusion.