liminaires
English translation: liminary text(s)
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| French to English translations [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Parts of a book | |||||||
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| 3 +2 | liminary text(s) |
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| 3 +1 | introductory remarks |
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| Pierre de Brach facsimile etc. |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1introductory remarks Explanation: as per discussion in the DB. As for the question as to whether they could be poems, I don't have the expertise to say. My feeling is that " (poèmes) liminaires" might be stretching it a bit.... But it's only a feeling! |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2liminary text(s) Explanation: PDF: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/54653/ACTA 15_0... Here the reader first becomes acquainted with the author, his friends and his work by way of these liminary poems which advertise, summarize, commend, praise, network, and (re)present. It is here that the reader’s expectations are shaped and he is put into the right mood to enter the text. It is an interface between world and text.14 The concept of liminality fits with early modern ideas about books: title-pages or frontispieces often show architectural elements, as we have noted in Heinsius’ Poemata at the outset, and were also called ‘arches’; in prefaces the book is called a theatre or building with doors and entrances... liminary texts have roots that reach back to the manuscript culture of antiquity: dedication, to a mecenas or to a fellow aristocrat, in the form of a letter or preface occurred from the third century BC onwards. The place for dedicating a book of poetry is its opening poem; mentioning the name of the addressee there means dedication of the whole book. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-10-30 18:19:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Liminary texts to the Psalms: https://clementmarot.com/psalms_epitres_epigram.htm -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-10-30 18:38:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Examples/Definition in Authorship in Nabokov’s Prefaces, by Jacqueline Hamrit http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61915 My choice to focus on liminary texts such as prefaces, postfaces, forewords or introductions written by Nabokov on his own fiction, is for methodological and strategic reasons. As they are all short, non-fictional, seemingly secondary texts, situated at the threshold of the main fictional text, they question the fictional text and textuality in general and so allow for an oblique and original analysis of Nabokov’s works. |
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19 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: Pierre de Brach facsimile etc. Reference information: A facsimile of the Pierre de Brach volume can be viewed via the Bibliothèque nationale de France website. This shows the prefatory matter in this instance to consist of a prose dedication followed by verses contributed by various poets (but not, in this case, signed by more than one person) in French, Italian, Latin and Greek (second link). Further weight is lent to the “liminary verses” argument by an excerpt from the book Reading in the Renaissance (second link). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2017-10-31 12:46:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Pierre de Brach facsimile *first link* Reference: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1171401/f1.image Reference: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ysYTK7jxfAoC&pg=PA116&lpg... |
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