Considerada la primera novela gótica, The Castle of Otranto (1764) cuenta con dos prefacios elaborados por un autor consciente de los riesgos que asumía al desafiar el canon literario de la época. ...Ambos textos exponen algunas de las particularidades góticas que se encuentran no solo en narrativas posteriores de este tipo, sino también en relatos fantásticos, que aparecerán medio siglo después. El objetivo de este artículo es rastrear los orígenes de lo fantástico en los prefacios de Horace Walpole para comprender mejor esta literatura y su desarrollo y diferencias con lo gótico. También se analizan las teorías sobre la novela gótica y lo fantástico.
The 1886/87 prefaces for the new editions of
, the first volume of
,
, and
, as well the preface for the first edition of the second volume of
, are Nietzsche’s starting point for elaborating and ...developing his late conception of illness and health. To arrive at a more detailed interpretation of the health process that Nietzsche describes, it is necessary to establish an intertextual reading of the prefaces and the aphorism GS 370 from the perspective of a psychophysiological analysis. Nietzsche classifies his interpretation of illness under the term “romanticism,” which he sees embodied by the figures of Schopenhauer and Wagner and which he considers to be the most extreme case of illness – while his conception of health is classified under the term “tragic pessimism.” Nietzsche applies the meaning of romanticism and tragic pessimism until the end of his work, transforming both concepts into categories from which he defines the nature of the human being.
En este trabajo, utilizando el método de investigación histórico, se analizan los prólogos de aquellas obras escritas en español y publicadas durante el siglo XVI que poseen contenido algebraico. En ...concreto, se han estudiado un total de diez prólogos, provenientes de seis textos escritos por cuatro autores. El análisis documental realizado se lleva a cabo en un doble plano. Por un lado, se identifican los temas generales abordados por los autores en los fragmentos considerados y, por otro lado, se identifican rasgos relacionados con las concepciones y creencias de los autores respecto a aspectos relacionados con la naturaleza de las matemáticas, con su enseñanza y su aprendizaje. La metodología utilizada es de tipo cualitativo y sigue un enfoque deductivo. Se han identificado una gran variedad de temas generales tanto en los prólogos dirigidos al lector como en aquellos dirigidos a personas concretas, mientras que los aspectos relacionados con concepciones y creencias se concentran principalmente en los prólogos al lector. Las categorías utilizadas cubren la práctica totalidad del texto analizado. Los temas más tratados tienen que ver con las declaraciones de intenciones, la veracidad, la importancia y la novedad o tradición. En cuanto a las creencias, los aspectos más tratados tienen que ver con la naturaleza de las matemáticas, seguidos de aquellos que tienen que ver con cómo enseñar o aprender matemáticas.
The value of the
or ‘prefaces’ to Cicero’s later philosophical works, composed in the last years of his life, has not yet been settled. Two schools of thought have emerged somewhat more clearly in ...recent times: one places a greater value on the prefaces as tools for understanding Cicero’s
as a whole, the other applies a more skeptical approach, using a degree of caution as to the nexus between the prefaces and the treatises to which they were affixed. The article advocates for the latter camp, however not only to temper the recent emphasis the optimists have placed on the prefaces as key interpretive elements to the dialogues, but to refocus their importance as extensions of Cicero’s personal and social networking with other Roman elites of his time. I rely on two main lines of argument: the anecdotal evidence from Cicero’s
, “book of prefaces”, mentioned in a letter to Atticus in 44
, as well as a broader analysis of a deeper disconnect between Cicero’s prefatory rhetoric regarding Latin philosophical vocabulary compared with Greek and his translation practices in his treatises.
In the preface of James Malcolm Rymer’s The Night Adventurer (1846), the writer claims that, contrary to popular opinion, the “masses” were attracted to stories on “account of their truthfulness” ...rather than “wild, romantic literature” (1846: Preface). Indeed, the ‘factual’ basis for penny serials was so marketable that numerous prefaces, author notes and newspaper advertisements emphasised how these serials were “founded on fact.” While there were sensationalist purposes for using factual biographies of criminals, the use of non-fictional sources has, I argue, a far more philanthropic social purpose which outlines the radical politics of the authors. For penny fiction, which was often deemed as harmless and derivative content, the authority the paratext proffered was vital in demonstrating its active engagement with social and political issues. Penny fiction authors used paratextual space to create authority, establishing affinity between author and reader in order to disseminate and support the moral of the fictional narrative in a more effective way. Writers exploited the unique, composite style of penny fiction, pioneered by George W. M Reynolds in The Mysteries of London (1844–6), to disseminate their political agendas, educate their readership and assert themselves as writers of serious literature.
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