Xenoencyclopedia

The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...

The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...

They offer a supplement—or possibly a starting point—to the reader's “personal encyclopedia” (Eco 1985 [1979]) or, in this case, “xeno-encyclopedia” (Saint-Gelais 1999), which was constituted through previous Marvel readings and which these publications help to configure according to the publisher's...