TEI P 5 : Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange by the TEI Consortium

A summary of the content of a text as continuous prose. contents A table of contents, specifying the structure of a work and listing its constituents. e elementshould be used to mark its structure. frontispiece A pictorial frontispiece, possibly including some text. e following extended example demonstrates how various parts of the front matter of a text may beencoded. e front part begins with a title page, which is presented in section 4.6. Title Pages below. isis followed by a dedication and a preface, each of which is encoded as a distinct : To my parents, Ida and Max FishPrefaceThe answer this book gives to its title question is there isand there isn't.Chapters 1–12 have been previously published in thefollowing journals and collections:chapters 1 and 3 in New literary Historychapter 10 in Boundary II (1980).I am grateful for permission to reprint.S.F.