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1	Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method more books like this by Gerard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator), Jonathan Culler (Foreword by) add to wishlist Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by ... see all copies from $14.59! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
2	The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence more books like this by Gerard Genette, G M Goshgarian (Translator) add to wishlist According to Gerard Genette, works of art can have two modes of existence: immanence and transcendence.Translated by G.M. Goshgarian. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Narrative Discourse Revisited more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $12.61!
4	Fiction & Diction more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $4.20! new only from $6.75! \| SVS
5	Essays in Aesthetics Essays in Aesthetics more books like this by Gerard Genette, Gerald Prince (Editor), Cohn Dorrit (Translator) add to wishlist Over the course of the past forty years, Gerard Genette's work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one of France's most influential theorists. The eighteen pieces in "Essays in Aesthetics" are of international interest because they are concerned either ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mimologics more books like this by Gerard Genette, Thais E Morgan (Translator), Gerald Prince (Foreword by) add to wishlist Do words - their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns - imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato's "Cratylus" more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art and artistic theory thereafter. Fascinating and many-faceted, mimology is the basis of language sciences and ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $6.98!
7	Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation more books like this by Gerard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator), Professor Richard Macksey (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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, Gerard Genette shows how ... see all copies from $42.00! new only from $53.28! \| SVS
8	The Aesthetic Relation more books like this by Gerard Genette, G M Goshgarian (Translator) add to wishlist One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Grard Genette here lores our aesthetic relation to works of art. Through an analysis of the views of thinkers ranging from David Hume and Immanuel Kant to Monroe C. Beardsley, Arthur Danto, and Nelson Goodman, Genette seeks to identify, the place of the aesthetic in a theory of artistic ... see all copies from $5.40! new only from $57.01! \| first editions
9	Matalepsis: de la Figura a la Ficcion more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $11.26! new only from $11.27!
10	Figures, Essais more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $62.17! \| SVS
11	Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree more books like this by Gerard Genette, Channa Newman (Translator), Claude Doubinsky (Translator) add to wishlist By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gerard Genette's most important works, examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts ... see all copies from $51.36! new only from $51.36! \| SVS
12	Quantum Books more books like this by Gerard Genette, Ga1/2rard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator) add to wishlist In this essential theoretical essay, Gerard Genette asserts that the object of poetics is not the text, but the "architext"--the transcendent categories (literary genres, modes of enunciation, and types of discourse, among others) to which each individual text belongs. In seeking to link these categories in a system embracing the entire field of ... see all copies from $50.00! first editions
13	Paratexte by Dieter; Genette Hornig, Gerard add to wishlist see all copies from $23.44! new only from $41.61!
14	Figures II by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $19.95!
15	Théorie des genres by Gérard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $44.88! new only from $44.88!
16	Narrative discourse more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $14.00! first editions
17	Palimpseste by Wolfram; Hornig Bayer, Dieter; Genette, Gerard add to wishlist see all copies from $28.89! new only from $47.64!
18	Bardadrac by Genette Gerard add to wishlist see all copies from $77.28! new only from $77.28!
19	Figures IV more books like this by Gerard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $83.91! new only from $83.91!
20	Discours Du Recit by Genette Gerard add to wishlist see all copies from $52.75! new only from $52.75!
21	Métalepse : de la figure à la fiction by Gérard Genette add to wishlist see all copies from $73.00! new only from $73.00!

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