“Mises en abyme” and satirical descriptions: “characters” of writing and writers in seventeenth-century England
This article demonstrates that the genre of seventeenth-century English “character-books” was highly self-reflexive. Authors theorized the act of writing by discussing the rules and complexities of literary composition in their prefaces and introductions. They also illustrated the process of writing...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/407 |