The Architext: An Introduction by Gérard Genette

The Architext: An Introduction

Gérard Genette

95 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this essential theoretical essay, Gérard Genette asserts that the object of poetics is not the text, but the architext—the transcendent categories (literary genres, modes of enunciation, and types of discourse, among others) to which each indiv...

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