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In literary interpretation, paratext is material that surrounds a published main text (e.g., the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) supplied by the authors, editors, printers, and publishers. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public.
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree is a 1982 book by French literary theorist Gérard Genette.Over the years, the book's methodological proposals have been confirmed as effective operational definitions, and have been widely adopted in literary criticism terminology.
Genette was born in Paris, where he studied at the Lycée Lakanal and the École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris. [1] After leaving the French Communist Party, Genette was a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie during 1957–8. [2] He received his professorship in French literature at the Sorbonne in 1967.
Transtextuality is defined as the "textual transcendence of the text".According to Gérard Genette transtextuality is "all that sets the text in relationship, whether obvious or concealed, with other texts" and it "covers all aspects of a particular text". [1]
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The former is the order in time in which all the events take place (Genette's narrative time). Although trivial, this identification is fundamental for the construction of the latter. I understand the sequence of social interactions as the set of the characters’ relationships ordered in relation to its appearance following the sequence of ...