Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Libri

The volume is a collection of selected papers presented at an international conference, The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe organized by the editors -- Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (Boston & Halle-Wittenberg ), Carmen Andras (Tärqur-tures), and Magdalena Marsovszky (München & Budapest) -- of the volume and held in Tärqu-Mures / Marosvasarhely / Neumarkt, Romania, August 2003, as well as papers submitted for publicatlon in the volume following an open call for papers. The papers in the volume are about various aspects of Central and East European culture after the fall of the Soviet empire and they reflect the profound and ongoing changes in all walks of life of the region. The scholarship presented in the volume is in a wide range of fields in the humanities and the social sciences including political science, (comparative) cultural studies, media studies, ethnic studies, history, sociology, anthropology, literary study, etc., with topics in the politics of culture, cultural traditions and European integration, the problematics of memory, intersections of society and socialization, music and nationalism, sexualities and civil society, aspects of globalization, economics, and culture, art and artists, the history of minorities, aspects of the media, the marginal and marginalization, bilateral co-operation in higher education, literary critlcism, etc.

This work offers a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novel prefaces, an unexplored literary topic. It adheres to a specific literary framework and methodology, necessitating a structured approach to the research and presentation of Canadian novel prefaces. The study begins by hypothesizing that the preface of these novels constitutes a distinct genre. This hypothesis is supported by a taxonomical survey of terms related to "preface," an examination of secondary literature on the subject, a discussion of the Empirical Theory of Literature's theoretical framework and methodology, and the compilation process of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). Subsequently, the theoretical postulate will be applied through the development of a preface typology (Chapter two). The study will then test further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature on the prefaces (Chapter three). Finally, the prefaces will be analyzed according to the principles established by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four). This comprehensive approach aims to illuminate the significance and characteristics of the preface genre within the context of Canadian literature.