“Mises en abyme” and satirical descriptions: “characters” of writing and writers in seventeenth-century England

This article demonstrates that the genre of seventeenth-century English “character-books” was highly self-reflexive. Authors theorized the act of writing by discussing the rules and complexities of literary composition in their prefaces and introductions. They also illustrated the process of writing...

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Main Author: Claire Labarbe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2012-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/407
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