A New Perspective of Literary Criticism
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Deng Jun
- Source
- Lingua Cultura, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 79-84 (2009)
- Subject
- literary criticism, paratext, Gérard Genette, structuralism
Language and Literature
Education
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1978-8118
2460-710X
Paratext is a relatively new term in literary criticism, which is mainly elaborated by modern French scholar Gérard Genette. Article presents a qualitative method with its purpose to present a survey to this new literary term and probe into what may lie behind this new critic perspective. Analysis was done by exploring the new literatures in terms of paratext. It can be concluded that paratext has a great influence to the deeper understanding from different perspectives of a literature work.