By Alistair Rolls, Maire-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Gérard Genette’s seminal research of the paratext, Seuils (1987), is the start line for this selection of essays, all of which search not just to have interaction with Genette’s taxonomy and follow it, but additionally to interrogate it and to maneuver via and past it. as well as mapping Genette’s association of (para)textual house onto a few French texts, together with novels and performs, texts translated into French, publication sequence and publishing advertising fabric, those essays soak up a number of the demanding situations raised in Seuils in addition to posing their very own. for instance, the connection among Genette’s paintings and deconstructionist methods to textual content and the intersection of paratextuality and translation, that are hinted at through Genette, are explored in additional element within the quantity, as is the inspiration of relocating via and past the paratext. As such, this e-book deals an important re-engagement with and deployment of paratextual idea and perform.
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Octave, in using his blood, which is the principle indicator of life, in order to engage with Armance, is mirroring an active, writerly reading praxis, according to which in order to engage with a work, to bring it to life, the reader must share a core part of himself. Reading Against the Author: Layers of Impotence in Stendhal’s Armance 41 The quotation also describes Octave displaying childlike creativity in using what is available to him and changing its meaning in order to fulfil his needs.
Quel type de production littéraire fait le plus grand usage de cette langue? – Ce livre en dif fère cependant. Par quels écarts stylistiques? – Peut-on dire que ce texte est ‘bien écrit’? 206) To sum up, the overall ef fect of the perversely lacunary structure of Banlieue is broadly threefold. Firstly, it throws into particular relief functions, strategies and ef fects of a wide range of paratextual elements, in establishing the status of the printed text, in providing a contextual framework of information about the author, the history of the text and aspects of the subject matter, and in promoting the book by provoking the reader’s curiosity or interest in various ways.
Thus, Octave’s death results not in the completion of Armance but in her retirement into a convent, where she exists without participating or interacting in life. Without Octave, whom she loved, Armance enters a state of suspension where she can continue existing although her life is over. Similarly, with the writerly reader having given up his role and his involvement in interacting with the work to create the text, the text cannot be lively and active, and so is left dormant, in a state of suspension, subsisting but not living, finished yet continuing to exist after the death of the reader.