Prefaces to the Novel: Robinson Crusoe and Novelistic Form.
In its early history the novel frequently deploys paratextual material to orient generic expectations, and in particular to navigate the often complex relation between the real and the fictional. Defoe's prefaces to the three instalments of the story of Robinson Crusoe map out an increasingly tortur...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Vol. 63; no. 2/3; pp. 96 - 107 |
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Aug-Dec2016
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