Transtextuality Keynote

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.