Gerard Genette

Paratexts

Thresholds of Interpretation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Genette shows how paratexts - titles, forewords, publishers' blurbs - shape both individual readings and literature as cultural institution.

Produktdetails

• Literature, Culture, Theory
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521424066
• ISBN-10: 0521424062
• Artikelnr.: 21617649

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Translator's note
1. Introduction
2. The publisher's peritext
3. The name of the author
4. Titles
5. The please-insert
6. Dedications and inscriptions
7. Epigraphs
8. The prefatorial situation of communication
9. The functions of the original preface
10. Other prefaces, other functions
11. Intertitles
12. Notes
13. The public epitext
14. The private epitext
15. Conclusion
Additional references
Index.