Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gérard Genette

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Literature, Culture, Theory

Gérard Genette

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 form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher, and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs, and publishers' jacket copy are part of a boo...

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