Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

(Part of the Literature, Culture, Theory Series)

by Gérard Genette

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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, G?rard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521424062

ISBN13:9780521424066

Release Date:March 1997

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:456 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature

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