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Gérard Genette

    June 7, 1930 – May 11, 2018

    Genette was instrumental in reintroducing a rich vocabulary of rhetorical terms, such as trope and metonymy, into literary criticism. His foundational work on narrative theory, notably "Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method," has been highly influential in shaping how we analyze stories. Through his multi-part "Figures" series and his trilogy exploring textual transcendence, he provided critical frameworks that continue to resonate. Although his work is often discussed in secondary analyses rather than studied in isolation, concepts like 'paratext' and 'hypotext' originating from his scholarship have become widespread tools for literary interpretation.

    Gérard Genette
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    Narrative Discourse
    Narrative Discourse Revisited
    Palimpsests : literature in the second degree
    • 2006

      Da un continuo scambio tra le suggestioni di una teoria generale delle forme letterarie (o poetica) e i dati concreti di una tradizionale, e spesso penetrante, analisi critica nascono i saggi di Figure III. Di questa doppia anima l'autore è ben conscio; la raccolta si apre, infatti, col breve scritto su Critica e poetica, che è una riaffermazione della pari e complementare dignità di entrambe. Ad esso fa seguito una ridiscussione dei rapporti tra Poetica e storia, classico tema della possibilità di una storia letteraria, visto da una specola non italiana (ma con risultati che suonano conferma a quelli di scuola italiana). Di questa collaborazione tra poetica, nella specie narratologica, e critica, Genette dà subito prova affrontando la Recherche proustiana, prima sinteticamente, con un magistrale saggio sulla Metonimia in Proust; poi analiticamente, smontando i meccanismi narrativi dell'opera. La lezione di metodo che ne risulta ha così un merito in più: quello di dimostrarsi, fin dalla sua formulazione, utile alla comprensione di un testo straordinariamente complesso, dal quale è lecito estrarre conclusioni generali sui rapporti tra storia, narrazione e racconto.

      Figure III. Discorso del racconto
    • 2005

      Metalepsa: Od figúry k fikcii

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Autor známy svojimi štrukturalistickými teóriami o kritikovi a umelcovi sa v tejto knihe venuje problematike metalepsy v priestore fikcie a na príkladoch literárnych diel, píše o rozširovaní možností rozprávania, ako aj interpretácie sveta.

      Metalepsa: Od figúry k fikcii
    • 1993

      A palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible". Originally published in France in 1982, Gerard Genette's PALIMPSESTS examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts on the same document.

      Palimpsests : literature in the second degree
    • 1991
    • 1988

      In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.

      Narrative Discourse Revisited
    • 1987
    • 1983

      Poétique: Nouveau discours du récit

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.

      Poétique: Nouveau discours du récit
    • 1983

      Narrative Discourse

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      Gerard Genette builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an anlaysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly 'Remembrance of Things Past.'Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages.

      Narrative Discourse