| Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation Contributor(s): Genette, Gerard (Author), Genette, Girard (Author), Lewin, Jane E. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521413508 ISBN-13: 9780521413503 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $171.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: NA |
| LCCN: 97164762 |
| Series: Literature, Culture, Theory |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.60 lbs) 456 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, G rard 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. |
