Paratexts
Thresholds of Interpretation
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Part of Literature, Culture, Theory
- Author: Gerard Genette
- Translator: Jane E. Lewin
- Date Published: March 1997
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521424066
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Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that mediate between book, author and reader: titles, forewords and publishers' jacket copy form part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette offers a global view of these liminal mediations and their relation to the reading public. With precision, clarity and through wide reference, he shows how paratexts interact with general questions of literature as a cultural institution. Richard Macksey's foreword situates Genette in contemporary literary theory.
Read more- First English translation of classic work by seminal French literary theorist
- First attempt to theorise the importance of paratextual elements through an extraordinarily wide range of references
- Foreword by Richard Macksey, leading literary theorist
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- Date Published: March 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521424066
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.602kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword
Translator's note
1. Introduction
2. The publisher's peritext
3. The name of the author
4. Titles
5. The please-insert
6. Dedications and inscriptions
7. Epigraphs
8. The prefatorial situation of communication
9. The functions of the original preface
10. Other prefaces, other functions
11. Intertitles
12. Notes
13. The public epitext
14. The private epitext
15. Conclusion
Additional references
Index.
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