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WHAT DO PREFACES ACTUALLY DO?

Author(s): Vesna Bogojević
Subject(s): 18th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: preface; self-referentiality; trustworthiness

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the function of authorial prefaces and the change of their role within the novel of the Enlightenment period. The main idea of the article - transformation of the prefaces’ meaning - emerges from the altered narrative perspective (and narrative), which in the second part of eighteenth century became more self-centered, while prefaces appeared as a line of separation, a distinguishing line between fiction and reality.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 11-12
  • Page Range: 100-138
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Serbian