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- Title
Introduction: Reconsidering Paratext as a Received Concept.
- Authors
Galey, Alan
- Abstract
It is now 40 years since Gérard Genette's work introduced the term paratexts into literary studies, giving a unifying name to the many kinds of texts that serve as thresholds to other texts. The term and concept have migrated into the study of several other media forms, including video game studies, thanks principally to Mia Consalvo in Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Video Games (2007) and Steven Jones in The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies (2008). The term's meaning expanded in the process, which has been the subject of much debate since then. Over a decade later, the timing seems apt to take stock of the concept of paratextuality and consider new ways of adapting it. This introduction to a special issue titled "Video Games and Paratextuality" reconsiders Genette's reception in video game studies, and introduces a set of articles that together look beyond Genette.
- Subjects
PARATEXT; VIDEO games; LITERARY criticism; TEXTUAL criticism
- Publication
Games & Culture, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 6, p708
- ISSN
1555-4120
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/15554120231184280