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architextuality en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.
   • Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it. 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
   • These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy. 2008, Mary Valentis, Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky, TechKnowledgies, page 20:

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Relateds

architextual · architextually · architexture

wikipedia: Gérard Genette