Le paratexte, trente ans après

Over the past three decades since the publication of Gérard Genette’s Seuils (1987), studies on paratext have spread in different disciplines and in several literary fields. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the emergence of this pioneering work, an international conference held in Bologna and host many researchers questioning the relevance of the paratext. The thematic dossier of the current issue focuses on both the implications drawn from Seuils and its reception in our current literary and media landscape. The aim is to detect some advancements, differences and connections, on the one hand, between the subcategories indicated in the text and, on the other hand, between the research strands that researchers have developed. This article, which accounts for the dossier’s introduction, sets the theoretical basis of our research and summarizes the following articles.