Publication

2011 - New York, Peter Lang, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

48,500 words, Guess

Page Count

194 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783034307468
  • ISBN-103034307462
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011045833
  • OCLC Control Number766607074
  • Better World Books9783034307468
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC840.9
  • LCCPQ79 .M38 2011
  • LCCPQ79.M38 2011

Description

Gérard Genette's seminal study of the paratext, Seuils (1987), is the starting point for this collection of essays, all of which seek not only to engage with Genette's taxonomy and apply it, but also to interrogate it and to move through and beyond it. In addition to mapping Genette's organization of (para)textual space onto a number of French texts, including novels and plays, texts translated into French, book series and publishing marketing material, these essays take up some of the challenges raised in Seuils as well as posing their own. For example, the relationship between Genette's work and deconstructionist approaches to text and the intersection of paratextuality and translation, which are hinted at by Genette, are explored in more detail in the volume, as is the notion of moving through and beyond the paratext. As such, this book offers a significant re-engagement with and deployment of paratextual theory and practice --

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Modern French identities -- 92

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