{"product_id":"the-social-dimensions-of-fiction-on-the-rhetoric-and-function-of-prefacing-novels-in-the-nineteenth-century-canadas-9783528073350","title":"The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vieweg+teubner Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45281033027735,"sku":"9783528073350","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783528073350.webp?v=1769298026","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-social-dimensions-of-fiction-on-the-rhetoric-and-function-of-prefacing-novels-in-the-nineteenth-century-canadas-9783528073350","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}