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Author: Gerard Genette Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521424066 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 460
Book Description
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 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.
Author: University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature Publisher: L'Institute ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 236
Author: Gerard Genette Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521424066 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 460
Book Description
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 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.
Author: Christine Lehleiter Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442664142 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction’s twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin’s poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and Goethe’s Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two.
Author: Richard Hobbs Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719048951 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
International specialists in French art and literature come together in this volume to investigate moderniteacute; through painting, sculpture, the novel, diaries, dance, poetry, criticism and theory.
Author: Geraldo Magela Cáffaro Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443889695 Category : Prefaces Languages : en Pages : 190
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The House, the World, and the Theatre departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to explore key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture. At the centre of the discussion is the way authors fashioned themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing. The prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James illustrate the conflicts underlying the new forms of self-definition in the nineteenth century and mediate the perception of authorship as a category that blurs the boundaries between social life and performance. This book combines genre criticism, new historicism, literary history, and contemporary perspectives in readings that show the imaginative quality of prefatory writing and the enduring relevance of canonical authors in the twenty-first century.
Author: D. A. Miller Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520067462 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
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"With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police in fiction as fiction and policing, narrative as a conservative function of the polis. Tracking diverse strategies of surveillance and incarceration into the confines of the fictional institution itself, Miller investigates Victorian novels as the often unconscious agent of a disciplinary culture. He thus reads fiction reading us, keeping a public in its private place. His mastery of an intricate, layered, and sinuous argument is stunning, the writing no less than superb. For all the book's overarching debt to Foucault, D.A. Miller 'do the police' in a voice all his own."—Garrett Stewart, author of Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction
Author: Michael McKeon Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801863974 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 972
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McKeon and others delve into the significance of the novel as a genre form, issues in novel techniques such as displacement, the grand theory, narrative modes such as subjectivity, character, and development, critical interpretation of the structure of the novel, and the novel in historical context.
Author: Christopher Lloyd Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the University of Durham ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
Author: Gerard Genette
Author: University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature
Author: Gerard Genette
Author: Christine Lehleiter
Author: Richard Hobbs
Author: Geraldo Magela Cáffaro
Author: D. A. Miller
Author: Arthur Holmberg
Author: Harvard University. Library
Author: Michael McKeon
Author: Christopher Lloyd