Paratexts by Gerard Genette

Paratexts by Gerard Genette

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.

Hannah Arendt is written by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, a French philosopher.

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ISBN 10	0521424062
Title	Paratexts
Author	Gerard Genette
Series	Literature Culture Theory
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1997-03-13
Number of pages	456
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