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- Author
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John Gornall
- Subjects
Literature ,Linguistics and Language ,Epigraph ,Literature and Literary Theory ,business.industry ,Prologue ,Philosophy ,Comparative literature ,Syntax (logic) ,Philology ,Extension (metaphysics) ,Paragraph ,business ,Comparative linguistics - Abstract
It is now reasonable to assume that the rubrics in the three earliest surviving editions of the sixteenth-century, anonymous La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades are apocryphal. This article stresses that, if so, the first tractado epigraph no longer necessarily marks the division between prologue and letter. The prologue probably in fact ended a paragraph earlier. Scholars have long sought to reconcile what now appear as the prologue proper and a factitious extension. The new structure proposed, while by no means abolishing problems in this area, may nonetheless enable us to take a more relaxed view of them.
- Published
- 2002