Postface: paratextuality, self-alterity and the becoming-text

Title: Postface: paratextuality, self-alterity and the becoming-text
Creator: Rolls, Alistair; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure
Relation: Masking Strategies: Unwrapping the French Paratext p. 159-185
Relation: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=61845
Publisher: Peter Lang
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: The aim of this book has been, and is, to generate fresh ideas around the paratext both as a phenomenon and a concept. The individual chapters have, by and large, taken Genette's classification of paratextual elements as a starting point for examining different aspects of a text's relationship with its readers and/ or its publishers. By way of a postface, we wish to test the perversity of the paratext a little further, to stretch its limits and to challenge the accepted understanding of what can reasonably be understood by the paratext as compared to the text. In particular, we shall examine how the beginnings of certain books extend the paratext into the diegesis proper. In short, this concluding chapter will offer something of an exit via the incipit. And so to beginnings ...
Subject: paratext; Gérard Genette; diegesis
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053070
Identifier: uon:15513
Identifier: ISBN:9783034307468
Language: eng
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