architextuality

noun

architextuality

noun

Etymology Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.

1

The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.

  • 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:
  • 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:
Related terms
architextual, architextually, architexture

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