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  2. Paratext - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Gérard Genette - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Transtextuality - Wikipedia

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    Paratextuality is the relation between one text and its paratext that surrounds the main body of the text. Examples are titles, headings, and prefaces. Architextuality is the designation of a text as a part of a genre or genres; Metatextuality is the explicit or implicit critical commentary of one text on another text

  6. Focalisation - Wikipedia

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    In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator. [1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing ...

  7. Metatextuality - Wikipedia

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  8. Non-fiction - Wikipedia

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    Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. [1] Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more ...

  9. Hypotext - Wikipedia

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    The word was defined by the French theorist Gérard Genette as follows "Hypertextuality refers to any relationship uniting a text B (which I shall call the hypertext) to an earlier text A (I shall, of course, call it the hypotext), upon which it is grafted in a manner that is not that of commentary."

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