Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of books by Gérard Genette
- Translator's note
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The publisher's peritext
- 3 The name of the author
- 4 Titles
- 5 The please-insert
- 6 Dedications and inscriptions
- 7 Epigraphs
- 8 The prefatorial situation of communication
- 9 The functions of the original preface
- 10 Other prefaces, other functions
- 11 Intertitles
- 12 Notes
- 13 The public epitext
- 14 The private epitext
- 15 Conclusion
- Additional references
- Index
Additional references
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of books by Gérard Genette
- Translator's note
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The publisher's peritext
- 3 The name of the author
- 4 Titles
- 5 The please-insert
- 6 Dedications and inscriptions
- 7 Epigraphs
- 8 The prefatorial situation of communication
- 9 The functions of the original preface
- 10 Other prefaces, other functions
- 11 Intertitles
- 12 Notes
- 13 The public epitext
- 14 The private epitext
- 15 Conclusion
- Additional references
- Index
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- ParatextsThresholds of Interpretation, pp. 411 - 418Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997