Author: Erasmus Henry Brodie
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Gerard Genette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521424066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.

Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

Author: Darlene J. Sadlier
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292718578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual arts, literature, film, and a variety of other media. Beginning with the first explorations of Brazil by the Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier incorporates extensive source material, including paintings, historiographies, letters, poetry, novels, architecture, and mass media to trace the nation's shifting sense of its own history. Topics include the oscillating themes of Edenic and cannibal encounters, Dutch representations of Brazil, regal constructs, the literary imaginary, Modernist utopias, "good neighbor" protocols, and filmmakers' revolutionary and dystopian images of Brazil. A magnificent panoramic study of race, imperialism, natural resources, and other themes in the Brazilian experience, this landmark work is a boon to the field.