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Gérard Genette

(1930–)

French, structuralistliterary theorist. Born in Paris, Genette studied at the École Normale Supérieure, where his classmates included Jacques Derrida and Pierre Bourdieu. After an obligatory period of teaching in lycées, Genette obtained a position at the Sorbonne in 1963 and then a more permanent post at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1967. Together with Tzvetan Todorov and Hélène Cixous, he founded the journal Poétique in 1970, which became a key organ of the structuralist and post-structuralist movements in Paris and a significant rival to Tel Quel. Genette's work focuses on the question of how literary writing works, that is, what sets it apart from other forms of non-literary writing, but also how does it achieve certain of its effects. His approach, consistent with Lévi-Strauss's original geological inspiration for structuralism, tends to be stratified: he investigates the ways different parts of the literary text interact and devotes considerable attention to identifying and analysing these parts. He enlarges the Russian Formali

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Gérard Genette

POLITICIAN

1930 - 2018

Gérard Genette

Gérard Genette (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ ʒənɛt]; 7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and with figures such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard Genette has received more than 303,529 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gérard Genette is the 4,004th most popular politician (down from 3,668th in 2019), the 1,245th most popular biography from France (down from 1,188th in 2019) and the 303rd most popular French Politician.

Gérard Genette is most famous for his work on narrative theory. He is most well-known for the concept of paratext, which is the space between the text and the reader.

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    The Architext: An Introduction

    January 27, 2022
    Poetica lui Aristotel, care consi­deră că epopeea, drama şi poezia lirică („melică") sînt ge­nurile literare fundamentale..." ; Northrop Frye, mai vag sau mai prudent : „Dispunem de trei termeni care deose­besc genurile, lăsaţi moştenire de autorii greci. drama, epopeea, opera lirică" ; şi, mai circumspect sau mai eva­ziv, Philippe Lejeune presupune că punctul de plecare al acestei teorii este „împărţirea trinitară a anticilor între epic, dramatic şi liric" ; nu însă şi Robert Scholles, care precizează că sistemul lui Frye „începe cu acceptarea îm­părţirii fundamentale datorată lui Aristotel între formele lirică, epică şi dramatică"; şi încă şi mai puţin Helene Cixous, care, comentînd spusele lui Dedalus, le localizează astfel sursa : „tripartiţie destul de clasică, împrumutată din Poetica lui Aristotel ; cît despre Tzvetan Todorov, el vede originea triadei la Platon iar sistematizarea ei definitivă la Diomede : „De la Platon la Emil Staiger, trecînd prin Goethe şi Jakobson. s-a vrut să se vadă în aceste trei categorii formele funda­

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