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Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Lewin, Jane E.
Genette, Gerard
Genette, Girard

Hardcover

Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, Book 20

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521413508
ISBN13: 9780521413503
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 13 1997
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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, Gérard 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.

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