Paratexts: thresholds of interpretation

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 this first...

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Main Author: Genette, Gérard 1930-2018 (Author)
Other Authors: Lewin, Jane E. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1997
Series:Literature, culture, theory 20
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/paratexts/8E570577FE5C3C417DEB6B70EA8A714D
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
Summary: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 this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration 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 as 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 interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory
Item Description:Erscheinungsjahr des E-Books: 2009. - Literaturverz. S. 411 - 417
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 427 S.)
ISBN:9780511549373
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511549373

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