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The Social Dimensions of Fiction

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

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Authors:
  1. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

    1. Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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Editors:
  1. Achim Barsch
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Part of the book series: Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft (KEL, volume 15)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Theoretical Foundations of the Study of Prefaces and the Corpus of the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 5-35

  4. A Typology of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 37-88

  5. Systemic Data in the Canadian Novel Prefaces

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 89-103

  6. Analysis of the Systemic Dimensions of the Preface Typologies and of the Systemic Data of the Prefaces

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 105-140

  7. Conclusion

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages 141-142

  8. Correction to: The Social Dimensions of Fiction

    • Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Pages C1-C1

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-191
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About this book

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).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Social Dimensions of Fiction

  • Book Subtitle: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas

  • Authors: Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

  • Editors: Achim Barsch

  • Series Title: Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-13909-6

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-528-07335-0Published: 01 January 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-13909-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 191

  • Topics: Language and Literature, Linguistics, general

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