Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

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.

Author: Gerard Genette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/13/1997
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780521413503

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