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Récits de vie et « naissance de l’écrivain » : An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley (1668) de Thomas Sprat

Etudes Epistémè, 2012
The Life of Abraham Cowley, published as a preface to his complete works immediately after his death, offers a new vision of the author as a biographical subject.
Violaine Lambert
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William Henry Fry’s Leonora: the Italian connection

, 2009
On 7 June 1845, the New York Herald published a letter by an ‘occasional correspondent’ from Philadelphia concerning William Henry Fry's first grand opera, Leonora, which premiered three days before at the Chestnut Street Theatre.
Izzo, Francesco
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« Preface, or Advertisement (call it which you please) » : les enjeux de l’intitulé de quelques préfaces auctoriales

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014
The article evaluates the importance of titles given by authors to their own prefatory texts. Does it make a difference to call them prefaces, advertisements, forewords or notices?
Maxime Leroy
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Agency in the Alternatives: Common-Law Perspectives on Binding the Firm [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter in a forthcoming book examines the external aspects of agency law in the context of unincorporated firms, that is, the capacity of actors associated a firm to bind it to the legal consequences of interactions with third parties.
Mörrby, Johan, Partin, Patrik
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On Speculation as a Strategy

Fafnir, 2020
For a long time, fiction has held a place as one of the most important arenas of the possible. The current global situation, defined by the climate crisis as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, radically challenges our ability to imagine what is possible on ...
Hanna-Riikka Roine
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902)

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2010
When mentioned at all, Hieroglyphics is usually described as an essay in which Arthur Machen exposes his views on literature. The aim of this paper is to show how the “Prefatory Note”, a sort of frame narrative, blurs the borderline between essay and ...
Sophie Mantrant
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The Prefatory/Postscript Letters to St. Thomas More’s Utopia: The Culture of ‘Seeing’ as a Reality-Conferring Strategy

Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2014
The article discusses the significance of on-the-spot observation and eye witnessing as powerful scientific tools for establishing the real in the early sixteenth century.
Emmanouil Aretoulakis
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Prefatory Note:

, 2014
The manifestos (and also anti-manifestos) collected here are culled from sessions organized by the BABEL Work-ing Group and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studiesat the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI), for which sessions we asked presenters to contemplate and “manifest ...
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The preface as stage: the theatrical trope and the performance of authorial identities in the nineteenth century

Ilha do Desterro, 2017
This essay explores references to the theatre in prefaces by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James. Particular emphasis is given to the way these authors employ figures such as stage manager and dramatist to reach their audiences and ...
Geraldo Magela Cáffaro
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Introduction to the Special Issue on World-Systems Analysis and the Anthropocene

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2020
Across the social sciences and humanities, and in diverse forms of popular media around the world, discourse about the Anthropocene is proliferating. From the plastic particles found in deep sea trenches to the unfolding of Earth’s sixth mass extinction,
Leslie Sklair, Michael Warren Murphy
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