The Architext by Genette
In this essential theoretical essay, Gérard Genette asserts that the object of poetics is not the text, but the architext—the transcendent categories (literary genres, modes of enunciation, and types of discourse, among others) to which each individual text belongs. In seeking to link these categories in a system embracing the entire field of literature, Western poetics has divided literature into three kinds: dramatic, epic, and lyric. This division, generally accepted since the eighteenth century, has been wrongly attributed to Aristotle with great detriment to the development of poetics. Here Genette disassembles this burdensome triad by retracing its gradual construction and distinguishes among the architextual categories that this division has long obscured. In so doing, Genette lays a firm foundation for future theorists of literary forms.-
This Is Not a Pipe
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Joyce's Voices
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Art
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The Territorial Dimension of Judaism
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Cooper's Landscapes
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The Figure of Echo
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Revolution and Repetition
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Circumstantial Deliveries
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A Literature Without Qualities
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A Renaissance Likeness
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Baudelaire and Freud
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Bad Mouth
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Writers and Pilgrims
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Drawing Masterclass
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The Mark of Cain
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Traveling in Mark Twain
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The Enlightenment against the Baroque
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The Finnegans Wake Experience
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The Indians in American Society
Gérard Genette is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Jane E. Lewin received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University and has translated Genette's Narrative Discourse and Narrative Discourse Revisited.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520076617 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520076613 |
| Title | The Architext |
| Author | G'rard Genette |
| Series | Quantum Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1992-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 95 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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