The Architext: An Introduction: 31 (Quantum Books) - Softcover

Genette, Gérard

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ISBN 10: 0520076613 ISBN 13: 9780520076617

Verlag: University of California Press, 1992

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In this essential theoretical essay, Gérard 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 literature, Western poetics has divided literature into three kinds: dramatic, epic, and lyric. This division, generally accepted since the eighteenth century, has been wrongly attributed to Aristotle with great detriment to the development of poetics. Here Genette disassembles this burdensome triad by retracing its gradual construction and distinguishes among the architextual categories that this division has long obscured. In so doing, Genette lays a firm foundation for future theorists of literary forms.

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Gérard Genette is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Jane E. Lewin received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University and has translated Genette's Narrative Discourse and Narrative Discourse Revisited.

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"Genette's erudite and witty book challenges radical historicism in literary studies. . . . A marvel of precision and argumentative rigour."—Thomas Pavel, Princeton University

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"Genette's erudite and witty book challenges radical historicism in literary studies. . . . A marvel of precision and argumentative rigour."Thomas Pavel, Princeton University

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520076613
• ISBN 13: 9780520076617
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 95
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