Paratext

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Literary theorist Gérard Genette defines Paratext as those things in a published work that accompany the text, things such as the author's name, the title, preface or introduction, or illustrations. [1]

Genette states "More than a boundary or a sealed border, the paratext is, rather, a threshold." It is "a zone between text and off-text, a zone not only of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an influence that ... is at the service of a better reception for the text and a more pertinent reading of it". Then quoting Philippe Lejeune, Genette further describes paratext as "a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole reading of the text".

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  1. ^ Genette Paratext: Thresholds of interpretation page 1

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