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 this first English translation of Paratexts, Gerard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration 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 as revealed in the borderlands…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-511-87999-9
- EAN: 9780511879999
- Produktnummer: 16940298
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 46'850 KB
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