began to regularly write
prefaces for a variety of writers, editors, and
Given the paucity of research in this area, this paper focuses on an analysis of paratexts, more specifically translator's
prefaces in literary translations in the context of Malaysia.
Furthermore, and particularly in the case of canonical texts which already boast several translations,
prefaces can draw attention to the unique relationship of each translator with a 'classic' text, and to the need and desire to try one's hand at molding it into another language.
Prefaces to academic textbooks, while providing an overview of the book, may also have a promotional purpose, an increasingly common phenomenon in the current professional climate (Bhatia 1997, 2004).
Prefaces to women's works in early modern England adopt a rhetoric designed to facilitate the printed book's entry into a potentially hostile literary market.
fueramus quinque libelli / tres sumus, 1-2), the Amores epigram does not relate an explicit rationale by which the poems could be read as a collection--at least not in the manner laid out in
prefaces such as those in Statius's Silvae or the letters of Pliny the Younger.
Avertissements,
prefaces et propos sur la poesie et la litterature.
The volume contains not only considerations of literary texts--the novels of Marivaux, Prevost, and Bernardin de Saint Pierre, as well as
prefaces to translations of English novels--but also looks at the emergence and development of the scholarly
preface.
The most extensive study in the volume is the final one, which examines in detail the
prefaces to Robert Olivetan's 1535 French Bible, in particular the fourth
preface, directed to the Jews.
A solid overview of plate tectonics
prefaces the volume.
James would be their advocate and the
prefaces the texts with which he would demonstrate his novels' worth.
Among the comments: the music for the
preface dialog and the proper
prefaces did not engage the kind of florid and climactic chant lines that would more properly highlight the introductory section of the Great Thanksgiving.
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how Scott showed the interplay between fact and fiction in
prefaces to the first editions of his novels.
Sections 19 to 33 are on general principles for all translation; 34-45 give norms for translating Scripture and preparing lectionaries; 46-62 give norms for translating the non-scripture prayers,
prefaces, etc.
Quinn devotes chapter three (certainly one of the book's most important, and most interesting, chapters) to an analysis of the
prefaces to Safavid historical texts.
