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- Genette is largely responsible for the reintroduction of a rhetorical vocabulary into literary criticism, for example such terms as trope and metonymy. Additionally, his work on narrative, best known in English through the selection Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, has been of importance.
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Dec 3, 2016 · The most important of the structural narratologists, Gerard Genette, has argued for the autonomous nature of the literary text. Genette's work has been of particular use to literary critics for his attempts to develop models of reading texts in a rigorously analytical manner.
Gérard Genette (7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and with figures such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.
3 days ago · Genette's work focuses on the question of how literary writing works, that is, what sets it apart from other forms of non-literary writing, but also how does it achieve certain of its effects.
May 2, 2017 · First, Genette sees two things: the text and the paratext. Therefore to him, the paratext is always outside the text, and it is likely always secondary. He sees paratexts as important, of course, and that is why his work is groundbreaking, but they are nonetheless always in a position of subservience to the text.
- Robert Brookey, Jonathan Gray
- 2017
French literary theorist Gérard Genette's term for the framing devices authors and publishers use to contextualize works and generate interest (e.g. blurbs, subtitles, celebrity endorsements, and so forth). As Genette points out in Seuils (1987) translated as Paratexts.
Jun 11, 2011 · Definition. 1 Perspective in narrative may be defined as the way the representation of the story is influenced by the position, personality and values of the narrator, the characters and, possibly, other, more hypothetical entities in the storyworld.
While the “grammatical” basis of his framework – he identified parts of narrative with parts of speech – is today less in vogue, many of his other concepts and terms remain highly useful in the analysis of a wide range of narrative, be they of literary, cinematic, or of other origin.
