architextuality
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.
Noun
[edit]architextuality (countable and uncountable, plural architextualities)
- The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.
- 2008, Mary Valentis, Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky, TechKnowledgies, page 20:
- These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy.
- 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
- Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.