Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521413503)

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 English translation of Paratexts, G rard Genette offers a global view of these liminal mediations and their relation to the reading public. With precision, clarity and through wide reference, he shows how paratexts interact with general questions of literature as a cultural institution. Richard Macksey's foreword situates Genette in contemporary literary theory.

Author: Gerard Genette
ISBN-10: 0521413508
ISBN-13: 9780521413503
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/13/1997
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.13d