Transtextuality

Grard Genette

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Grard Genette
Professor of French Literature Author of Palimpsests Inventor of Focalization

Palimpsests?

What is trans

intermeta-

para-

hyperarchi-

textuality

what is intertextuality?

Intertextuality
can be defined as a text segment present in another text
q uo ti ng , pl agi a ri sm , a ll us io n

What is paratextuality?

paratextuality
can be defined as two text linked together by paratexts, inobvious text snippets.
s, te o tn o fo s, on ti ca di de s, le it (t s p a rate xt ch a p te r n ames, etc. )

what is metatextuality?

metatextuality
can be defined as a text commenting on another one.
exam ple: H igh Fide li ty p age 21 s k oo b te ri ou v fa ve fi p to e im -t m y a ll

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 dont like them very much.

What is architextuality?

architextuality
can be defined as a genre classification that is dependent on the expectations of the reader
a or el ov n y sp a e bl a h uc to n U e h T is exam ple: rom a n clef ?

What did you expect when you read The Untouchable for a proseminar called British Spy Fiction?

what is hypertextuality?

hypertextuality
can 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.

t ra n s f o r m at io n, im it at io n

hypertextuality

transformation

Imitation

transformation Le temps est un grand matre.

change one word

Le temps est un grand maigre.

imitation Le temps est un grad matre.

mimic the meaning

Paris n'a pas t bti en un jour.

transformation

Imitation

parody

travesty

caricature

pastiche

function

satirical

nonsatirical

genres

parody

travesty

caricature

pastiche

relation

transformation

imitation

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Define the relationship between the texts. Present your results.