Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gérard Genette

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Literature, Culture, Theory

Gérard Genette with Jane E. Lewin (Translator)

456 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Engl...

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