Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

Introduction to New Work about World Literatures

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Towards a taxonomy of the preface in English, French, and German

In his article “Towards a Taxonomy of the Preface in English, French, and German” Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek asks whether the preface can be considered a genre in its own right and presents a selected taxonomy of this text type in English-, French-, and German-language scholarship. In prefatorial taxonomy in the languages at hand, some terms were more frequently used at a particular time, while some were used more specifically than others. In the nineteenth century, but also at present, in both English and French it is the term “preface” or “préface,” which best expresses and is most used for this type of text. In German the most often used term is “Vorwort,” whose meaning is analogous to “preface” and “préface” (it should be noted here that German-language scholarship in particular has contributed much to the study of the preface; also, the volume of German-language prefatory taxonomy is significant). Based on selected texts on the preface and their taxonomies suggest that the preface is a genre in its own right.

Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the Study of Literature and Culture

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Selected Bibliography for Work in Reading, Literacy, and Pedagogy

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Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing

The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatjes oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, Mariene Goldman, and Sandeep Sanghera with papers on Anils Ghost, Beverley Curran, Stephanie M. Hilger, Hsuan Hsu, and Steven Totosy on The English Patient, Gien Lowry and Winfried Siemerling on In the Skin of a Lion, Jon Saklofske on Coming Through Slaughter, and Eluned Summers-Bremner on Ondaatjes poetry. The papers in the volume are followed by a selected bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatjes oeuvre (Steven Totosy), a list of Ondaatjes works, and the bio-profiles of the contributors to the volume. With the objective to render appreciation of both Ondaatjes writing and thought about his writing, the critical work presented in the volume will prove useful to general readers, critics, and scholars alike