From parallelogram to tower? Texts-Contexts-Paratexts. A Study of the Hamsun Center in a document theory perspective

• Main Author: Faaland, Maryline Sinniger
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2014
• Subjects: VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320::Dokumentasjonsvitenskap: 325; VDP::Social science: 200::Library and information science: 320::Documentation science: 325; DOK-3951; Hamarøy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/7497

The focus of attention of this thesis is the paratext (Genette, Seuils, 1987). In Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (1997) Genette advances his theory on the role of paratexts in the elaboration of a book. He shows how “every context serves as a paratext” and foresees in the end that the conce...