书目名称 | The Social Dimensions of Fiction |
副标题 | On the Rhetoric and |
编辑 | Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek,Achim Barsch |
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丛书名称 | Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft |
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描述 | 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 postula |
出版日期 | Book 1993 |
关键词 | English; English literature; comparative; corpus; foundation; genre; literature; methodology; typology; will; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-13909-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-528-07335-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-663-13909-6 |
copyright | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1993 |