{"product_id":"paratexts-thresholds-of-interpretation-paperback-9780521424066","title":"Paratexts; Thresholds of Interpretation (Paperback) 9780521424066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParatexts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThresholds of Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenette shows how paratexts – titles, forewords, publishers' blurbs – shape both individual readings and literature as cultural institution.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerard Genette (Author), Richard Macksey (Foreword by), Jane E. Lewin (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521424066, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 March 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e456 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.602 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eParatexts 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, Gérard 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e Translator's note\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The publisher's peritext\u003cbr\u003e 3. The name of the author\u003cbr\u003e 4. Titles\u003cbr\u003e 5. The please-insert\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dedications and inscriptions\u003cbr\u003e 7. Epigraphs\u003cbr\u003e 8. The prefatorial situation of communication\u003cbr\u003e 9. The functions of the original preface\u003cbr\u003e 10. Other prefaces, other functions\u003cbr\u003e 11. Intertitles\u003cbr\u003e 12. Notes\u003cbr\u003e 13. The public epitext\u003cbr\u003e 14. The private epitext\u003cbr\u003e 15. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Additional references\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45999538307352,"sku":"9780521424066","price":27.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521424066i_6cda6bd6-2b3e-4235-9d74-0b5cf26bfd06.jpg?v=1691381502","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paratexts-thresholds-of-interpretation-paperback-9780521424066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}