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1 online resource (xxv, 427 pages) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Literature, culture, theory ; 20 |
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Literature, culture, theory ; 20.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
"Transferred to digital printing 2001." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The publisher's peritext -- The name of the author -- Titles -- The please-insert -- Dedications and inscriptions -- Epigraphs -- The prefatorial situtation of communication -- The functions of the original preface -- Other prefaces, other functions -- Intertitles -- Notes -- The public epitext -- The private epitext -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"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 Paratexts, an English translation of Seuils, Gerard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declarations 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 of the Republic of Letters as they are 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 interacts with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Genette's work in contemporary literary theory."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Language |
Translation of: Seuils. |
| Subject |
Literature publishing -- History.
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Discourse analysis, Literary.
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Authors and publishers.
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Transmission of texts.
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Criticism, Textual.
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Literary form.
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Books -- Format.
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Paratext.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewin, Jane E., translator.
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Macksey, Richard, 1931-2019, writer of foreword.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0521413508 |
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0521424062 (pbk.) |
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9780521424066 (pbk.) |
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9780521413503 hardcover |
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9780521424066 paperback |
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9780511879999 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40164 hdl |
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