Architextuality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work. countable, uncountable

    "These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy."

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"These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy."

Etymology

Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.

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