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One of Gérard Genette’s most important works, this examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations.

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"Genette's work on narratology has been extremely influential, and deservedly so; his intertextual studies, undeservedly, far less so. This excellent translation should inspire further work on intertextual theories and practices, including imitations and transformations of Genette's main points."-Andrew Reynolds, Journal of European Studies Journal of European Studies "Very useful to comparative literature scholars familiar with Genette's style."-Library Journal Library Journal

Palimpsests

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    A Paperback / softback by Gerard Genette, Channa Newman, Claude Doubinsky

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780803270299, 978-0803270299
      ISBN10: 0803270291
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of Gérard Genette’s most important works, this examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations.

      Trade Review
      "Genette's work on narratology has been extremely influential, and deservedly so; his intertextual studies, undeservedly, far less so. This excellent translation should inspire further work on intertextual theories and practices, including imitations and transformations of Genette's main points."-Andrew Reynolds, Journal of European Studies Journal of European Studies "Very useful to comparative literature scholars familiar with Genette's style."-Library Journal Library Journal

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