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Paratext – A Useful Concept For The Analysis Of Digital Documents?, Roswitha Skare
Paratext – A Useful Concept For The Analysis Of Digital Documents?, Roswitha Skare
Proceedings from the Document Academy
In his study, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation , the French literature scholar Gérard Genette introduces the concept of the “paratext” to the public. Genette explains the term paratext as that “what enables a text to become a book and to be offered as such to its readers and, more generally, to the public” (Genette 1997, 1).
Genette’s concept has since also been applied to other media, especially audiovisual forms, such as film and television. Film scholars are using the concept when analyzing the importance of opening scenes and credits in films , or the significance of different technologies in providing …