“I feare to prefixe to these few poems a long epistle”: Dedications, Addresses to the Reader and Generic Influences

Because of its protean nature, paratextual material could be viewed as a category which combines items that have various generic characteristics, generally taking from other genres. The dedication and the address to the reader thus derive from the epistolary genre, though with editorial and formal a...

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Main Author: Béatrice Chaix Rouchon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2023-06-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/14341