Об отношении писателя к власти (на материале предисловий к книгам второй половины XVIII века)
On the writer's attitude toward power (based on the preface to the books of the second half of the 18th century)

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the question of the relationship of writers to power in one aspect: the dedication of their books to the representatives of secular or ecclesiastical authority. These dedications were very widespread in the second half of the 18th century and were characterized by diverse character. The peculiar texts, however, were dominated by the low status of the writer in the material sense, and the desire to find a patron "sponsor". But there were also polemical dedications (anti-depictions) that showed the rise of the self-consciousness of the authors and the desire to become independent from the mighty caprices of this world.

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