How Long to Read Paratexts

How Long Does it Take to Read Paratexts?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Paratexts by Gerard Genette

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.

How long is Paratexts?

Paratexts by Gerard Genette is 460 pages long, and a total of 115,000 words.

This makes it 155% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Paratexts Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 28 minutes to read Paratexts aloud.

What Reading Level is Paratexts?

Paratexts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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