Meanings
plural architextualities
- countableuncountableThe categories and properties of a literary genre that provide the textuality of an individual work.
These architextualities, in turn, replicate the metrics and asymmetrical geometries of say the city or a philosophy.
2008, Mary Valentis, Tara P. Monastero, Paula Yablonsky, TechKnowledgies, page 201 more example
Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.
2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics
Origin
Blend of architecture + textuality? Coined by Gérard Genette.
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