| The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Zepetnek, Steven Totosy de (Author) |
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ISBN: 3528073357 ISBN-13: 9783528073350 Publisher: Vieweg+teubner Verlag OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 813.409 |
| LCCN: 94151399 |
| Series: Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.64 lbs) 191 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |
