IVIV Chandler

[Clément Lévy]

I agree with John and Tore (but I still didn't get the book in  
today's mail).
We may call the dust jacket text and the video transcript parts of  
the paratext, to quote Gérard Genette. It's on google books:
http://books.google.com/books? 
id=AmWhQzemk2EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=genette 
+paratexts#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Clément

Le 19 août 09 à 18:09, Tore Rye Andersen a écrit :

>
> Doug:
>
>> Since Pynchon uses it to present this key bit of info about his
>> narrator, I wonder if we should consider the video part of the IV
>> text.  Or, does it remain separate, like  the dust jacket copy,  
>> not to
>> be considered as part of the novel's text.
>
> I think the jacket copy and the video should be considered on the
> same paratextual level: Ideally, they should be separate from the
> text itself, but in reality, such a thing as "the text itself" is
> an illusion. The text will always be presented to us in various
> material contexts, and these contexts (like the video and the jacket
> copy) function like a sort of pre-interpretations which inevitably
> tinge our experience of the text, bleed into it and subtly steer our
> approach to the text into certain grooves.
>
>
>
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