Abstract
A text relation with other texts has been a significant subject, which attracted the consideration of researchers, such as Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes and etc. within Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. Gerard Genette, a French literary theorist, is one of the researchers who define “transtextuality” as a theory which is used when we are not sure about the interpretation of one text that we are reading. His theory describes the different methods in later text which motivates us to read an earlier one. This is the important reason that I have decided to look at his different methods. Genette broadens the study area of Julia Kristeva about “intertextuality” as a theory pointing to relation between various texts. He defines five categories of transtextuality, including intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, architextuality, and hypertextuality, which this paper will explore them as Genette’s textual transcendence. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p533
Highlights
A text is ... a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash
Gerard Genette widened the study area of Kristeva, and called relation between a text with other texts or different from its own as "transtextuality" or textual transcendence and he subdivided this type into five categories where intertextuality was only one type
This paper made an attempt to have an exploration of various categories in textual transcendence or transtextuality by Gerard Genette
Summary
A text is ... a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. As for transtextuality, Genette says that “all that sets the text in a relationship, whether obvious or concealed, with other texts” which it “covers all aspects of a particular text” (1992, pp 83-84). He examines the relation between a text with other texts broader and more systemic than Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes. Genette's studies involve territory of structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics too, and this permits him to examine intertextual relationships with all its variables He calls the collection of these relations, "transtextuality". Paratextuality probes into the relation of a text to other connected or separated texts
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