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Gérard Genette

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Born: June 06 1930

Died: 1010 05 20182018

Genette was 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.[2] His major work is the multi-part Figures series, of which Narrative Discourse is a section. His trilogy on textual transcendence, which has also been quite influential, is composed of Introduction à l'architexte , Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree , and Paratexts. Thresholds of interpretation .[3]
His international influence is not as great as that of some others identified with structuralism, such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss; his work is more often included in selections or discussed in secondary works than studied in its own right. Terms and techniques originating in his vocabulary and systems have, however, become widespread, such as the term paratext for prefaces, introductions, illustrations or other material accompanying the text, or hypotext for the sources of the text.

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Gérard Genette

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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree

Figures III

Narrative Discourse Revisited

The Architext: An Introduction

Figures I

Figures II

Fiction and Diction

Metalepsis: de la Figura a la Ficcion

Soglie: I dintorni del testo

Essays in Aesthetics

Figure

Teoría de los géneros literarios

Figures.

Discours Du Récit

Des genres et des oeuvres

Narratologi

Narratologi

Esthétique Et Poétique