architextuality

English

Etymology

Blend of architecture +‎ textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.

Noun

architextuality (countable and uncountable, plural architextualities)

  1. 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.
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