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A preface (/ ˈ p r ɛ f ə s /) or proem (/ ˈ p r oʊ ɛ m /) is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword [contradictory] and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary ...
The preface paradox, or the paradox of the preface, [1] was introduced by David Makinson in 1965. Similar to the lottery paradox , it presents an argument according to which it can be rational to accept mutually incompatible beliefs.
In the "Preface" to his edition, Johnson justifies trying to determine the original language of the Shakespearean plays. To benefit the reading audience, he added explanatory notes to various passages. Later editors followed Johnson's lead and sought to determine an authoritative text of Shakespeare.
In liturgical use the term preface is a formal thanksgiving that immediately precedes (or forms part of) the Canon, Eucharistic Prayer, Prayer of Consecration or analogous portion of the Eucharist (Holy Communion, Mass or Divine Liturgy). [1]
Prefaces (Danish: Forord) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard published under the pseudonym Nicolaus Notabene. The meaning of the pseudonym used for Prefaces, Nicholaus Notabene, was best summed up in his work Writing Sampler, where Kierkegaard said twice for emphasis, “Please read the following preface, because it contains things of the utmost importance.” [1] He was trying to tell his ...
The preface to Milton includes the poem "And did those feet in ancient time", which was set to music as the hymn called "Jerusalem". The poem appears after a prose attack on the influence of Greek and Roman culture, which is unfavourably contrasted with "the Sublime of the Bible". The preface to Milton, as it appeared in Blake's own illuminated ...
Sun Chuo also wrote a preface, which is somewhat less famous. [ 3 ] The Orchid Pavilion Gathering of 42 literati included Xie An and Sun Chuo [ 4 ] and Wang Pin-Chih at the Orchid Pavilion ( Lanting ) on Mount Kuaiji just south of Kuaiji (present-day Shaoxing in Zhejiang ), during the Spring Purification Festival , on the third day of the third ...
Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an introduction, rather than in the foreword or like preface. The pages containing the foreword and preface (and other front matter) are typically not numbered as part of the main work, which usually uses Arabic numerals.