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  • One Twitter follower was Genette Cordova, a Washington state college student identified as the intended recipient of the waist-down photo of a man in bulging underpants.

    Ambitious Weiner sees media strategy backfire 2011

  • The French literary theorist Gérard Genette coined the neologism ‘paratext’ to describe subsidiary and secondary material such as prefaces, post-scripts, footnotes and illustrations, which illuminate, but are ultimately subservient to, the principle text.

    Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008

  • With Genette and Todorov, Cixous launched the journal Poétique in 1968.

    H��l��ne Cixous. 2009

  • Ah - cheers for that Genette, mea culpa, will amend.

    Interesting news.... Rachel 2007

  • Genette, a commenter points out that these images are taking from the trial run and are not, as I first thought, additional 7/7 CCTV images of the bombers entering Luton station.

    Interesting news.... Rachel 2007

  • As Genette emphasizes, poetry of the French baroque could not be less fluid.

    dorveille (II) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2005

  • Genette, on the other hand, argues that strict observance of this rule is unnecessary.

    The point of view, part 5 Michael Allen 2004

  • The analysis which Genette gives us is interesting, up to a point, and useful, up to a point.

    November 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • In that book, Genette identifies three types of prose, which he refers to as non-focalised, internally focalised, and externally focalised.

    The point of view, part 1 Michael Allen 2004

  • Well, when you dig down through the layers of obfuscation, you discover that what Genette calls non-focalised fiction is simply a story told from the point of view of the classic omniscient narrator of whom more below.

    November 2004 Michael Allen 2004

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