ACCESSUS AD AUCTORES  

Introductory remark in PREFACE

This mode in which the author presents himself to his audience, typically in an introduction, is late to become common in China and very obviously needs careful study in connection with Chinese notions of authorship and the choreography of the "posing" in authorship, as manifested in traditional texts.

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  • PREFACELITERARY GENRE in the form of a short text serving as an introduction to a much longer book or written/spoken text by someone else.
    • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
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