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Gerard Genette
Genette shows how paratexts - titles, forewords, publishers’ blurbs - shape both individual readings and literature as cultural institution.
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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…
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Elena Dubodelova
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Freie Universitat Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wollen wir uns mit dem Thema…
Genette's Bardadrac is a serial memoir inviting one to stroll and gather: youthful experiences in the suburbs of Paris, the evocation of great intellectual figures, a taste for cities, rivers…
Includes eighteen pieces which are concerned either with universal aesthetic problems or with specific moments in the work of a well-known writer or artist. This title contains material related to…
Petra Huth
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 1,7, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg (Medienkulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Ausgewahlte Comicanalysen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegende Arbeit wird der Comic Simon’s…
What art is-its very nature-is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to…
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…
One of the best-known continental theorists writing today, Gerard Genette here explores our aesthetic relation to works of art. Through an analysis of the views of thinkers ranging from David…
One of Gerard Genette’s most important works, this examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to…
Susanne Ackermann
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 3,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (Institut fur deutsche und niederlandische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Erzahtheorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie in…
Michael Krieger
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Franzoesisch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 2,0, Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultat), Veranstaltung: Balzac, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll Honore de…
Juana Yan
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1.7, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand aus dem erzahltheoretischen Interesse an dieser deutschen Novelle. Meine…
Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette’s expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply…
Paratexts are those devices that mediate between book, author and reader: titles, forewords, dedications, epigraphs, notes, intertitles, interviews and conversations with the author, all form part of a book’s history…
