Paratexts

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers'' jacket copy are part of a book''s private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual decl...