architextual - Adjective
Relating to architextuality
Term originally coined by Gérard Genette, a French philosopher and literary theorist associated in particular with the structuralist movement and with figures such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. Genette asserted that the object of poetics is not the text, but the architext.
architext - Noun
The transcendent categories (literary genres, modes of enunciation, and types of discourse, among others) to which each individual text belongs.
architextuality - Noun
The categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.
