Gerard Genette's scientific contributions
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... As such, on the account of literary theorist John Stephens (2010Stephens ( : 222-2230 who credits Genette with the origins of the term, "a printed text does not stand alone but is accompanied by a number of textual, and even non-textual objects that are exterior to the text itself yet impact upon a reader's approach to the text." In Genette's words, paratext is a "threshold," an "undefined zone," between the inside and the outside, a zone without any hard and fast boundary on either the inward side (turned toward the text) or the outward side (turned toward the world's discourse about the text), an edge, or, as Philippe Lejeune puts it, "a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole reading of the text" (Genette, 1997: 2). It should be noted that according to Genette, all readers do not need to know what paratextual elements are at play. ...
