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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method

Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator), Jonathan Culler (Foreword by)

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 ...

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The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence

The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence more books like this

by Gerard Genette, G M Goshgarian (Translator)

According to Gerard Genette, works of art can have two modes of existence: immanence and transcendence.Translated by G.M. Goshgarian.

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Narrative Discourse Revisited

Narrative Discourse Revisited more books like this

by Gerard Genette

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 ...

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Fiction & Diction more books like this

by Gerard Genette

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Essays in Aesthetics Essays in Aesthetics

Essays in Aesthetics Essays in Aesthetics more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Gerald Prince (Editor), Cohn Dorrit (Translator)

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 ...

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Mimologics

Mimologics more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Thais E Morgan (Translator), Gerald Prince (Foreword by)

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 ...

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Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator), Professor Richard Macksey (Foreword by)

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 ...

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The Aesthetic Relation

The Aesthetic Relation more books like this

by Gerard Genette, G M Goshgarian (Translator)

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 ...

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Matalepsis: de la Figura a la Ficcion

Matalepsis: de la Figura a la Ficcion more books like this

by Gerard Genette

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Figures, Essais more books like this

by Gerard Genette

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Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree

Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Channa Newman (Translator), Claude Doubinsky (Translator)

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 ...

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Quantum Books

Quantum Books more books like this

by Gerard Genette, Ga1/2rard Genette, Jane E Lewin (Translator)

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 ...

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Paratexte

by Dieter; Genette Hornig, Gerard

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Figures II

by Gerard Genette

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Théorie des genres

by Gérard Genette

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Palimpseste

by Wolfram; Hornig Bayer, Dieter; Genette, Gerard

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Bardadrac

by Genette Gerard

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Figures IV more books like this

by Gerard Genette

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Discours Du Recit

by Genette Gerard

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Métalepse : de la figure à la fiction

by Gérard Genette

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