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Literature, Culture, Theory - 20: Paratexts

Thresholds of Interpretation

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  • 456pagine
  • 16 ore di lettura

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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.

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Literature, Culture, Theory - 20: Paratexts, Jane E. Lewin, Richard Macksey, Gérard Genette

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Pubblicato
1997
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Titolo
Literature, Culture, Theory - 20: Paratexts
Sottotitolo
Thresholds of Interpretation
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
1997
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
456
ISBN10
0521424062
ISBN13
9780521424066
Serie
Descrizione
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.