Practice question · Numerical answer
Genette divides the paratext into the peritext, which surrounds the text within the volume, and the epitext, which lies outside it. How many divisions is that?
Hints
- Count the two named categories.
- Peritext and epitext.
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2
Why
Two. Peritext is the title page, cover, preface and notes; epitext is interviews, letters and reviews. Both do the framing that Searle's argument requires but that no sentence of the novel can perform, the word "novel" under the title is the clearest single instruction a reader receives.
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