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para ? meta ? hyper !
TranstextualityGérard Genette
Gérard Genette
Professor of French Literature
Author of Palimpsests
“Inventor” of Focalization
Palimpsests?
What is trans ?
para-inter-
meta- archi-
hyper-
textuality
what is intertextuality?
quoting, plagiarism, allusion
Intertextualitycan be defined as a text segment present in
another text
What is paratextuality?
paratexts (titles, dedications, footnotes, chapter names, etc.)
paratextualitycan be defined as two text linked together by
paratexts, inobvious text snippets.
what is metatextuality?
example: High Fidelity page 21“my all-time top five favourite books”
metatextualitycan be defined as a text commenting on another
one.
I have read books like The Unbearable
Lightness of Being and Love in the Time
of Cholera, and understood them, I think (they were
about girls, right?), but I don’t like them
very much.
What is architextuality?
example: is The Untouchable a spy novel or a roman à clef ?
architextualitycan be defined as a genre classification that is
dependent on the expectations of the reader
What did you expect whenyou read The Untouchable
for a proseminar called British Spy Fiction?
what is hypertextuality?
transformation, imitation
hypertextualitycan be defined as the relationship between a text A
("hypotext") and a text B ("hypertext") where text A is the basis and text B an overlay.
hypertextuality
transformation Imitation
transformation
Le temps est un grand maître.
change one word
Le temps est un grand maigre.
imitation
Le temps est un grad maître.
mimic the meaning
Paris n'a pas été bâti en un jour.
transformation Imitation
parodytravesty
caricature pastiche
function
genres
relation
satiricalnon-
satirical
parody travestycari-cature
pastiche
transformation imitation
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Define the relationship between the texts.
Present your results.