Gerard Genette, Girard Genette

Paratexts

Thresholds of Interpretation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher, and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs, and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In Paratexts, an English translation of Seuils, Gerard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declarations requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision, and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions of the Republic of Letters as they are revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interacts with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Genette's work in contemporary literary theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9780521413503
• ISBN-10: 0521413508
• Artikelnr.: 22337500

Inhaltsangabe

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.