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In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of
the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more
systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not
only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of
narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of
narratology over the decade between the two works.
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.
Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a
systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of
Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting
what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies
and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and
illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages.
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 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
interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural
institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary
theory.
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