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Gérard Genette

Born

in Paris, France

June 07, 1930

Died

May 11, 2018

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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 (1979), Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1982), and Paratexts. Thresholds of interpretation (1997).[3]
His international influence is not as great as that of some others identified with structuralism, such as Roland Barthes a ...more

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	Narrative Discourse by Gérard Genette, Jane E. Lewin (Translator) , Jonathan Culler (Foreward) 3.92 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation 3.99 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gérard Genette, Channa Newman (Translation) , Claude Doubinsky (Translation) 4.01 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1962 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures III 4.12 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Narrative Discourse Revisited by Gérard Genette, Jane E. Lewin (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architext: An Introduction 4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures I really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1391 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures II 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiction and Diction 3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mimologics by Gérard Genette, Thais E. Morgan (Translation) , Gerald Prince (Foreword) 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Qui peut le plus peut le moins.”
― Gérard Genette, Théorie des genres

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“What was very stylish yesterday is today very boorish, but the wheel turns, and what today is good-for-nothing will surely melt our hearts tomorrow or the day after. Don't throw out your old epigraphs: they could be useful to your
grandchildren, if they still know how to read.”
― Gérard Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation

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“there are no objects except particular ones and no science except of the general”
― Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse

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