Paratexts : thresholds of interpretation /
"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 Pa...
| Основен автор: | Genette, Gerard, 1930- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Серия: |
Literature, culture, theory ;
20. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=675642 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Paratexts |
| Резюме: |
"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."--Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxv, 427 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781107784321 1107784328 9780511549373 0511549377 9780511953941 0511953941 |