| Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation Contributor(s): Genette, Gerard (Author), Lewin, Jane E. (Translator), Macksey, Richard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0521424062 ISBN-13: 9780521424066 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: NA |
| LCCN: 97164762 |
| Series: Literature, Culture, Theory |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.52" W x 8.52" (1.31 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. |