paratextually

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adverb

In a paratextual manner; existing outside or beyond a text or work.

“Some contend that an author revealing a character's sexuality paratextually does not make it canon.”

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adverbparatextually (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a paratextual manner; existing outside or beyond a text or work.

    Some contend that an author revealing a character's sexuality paratextually does not make it canon.

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    In fact, these two novels reflect each other almost paratextually in important ways: each concerns a young girl with aspirations to become a writer; indeed, each story is compounded of the diary entries written by the protagonist.

    1982, Shari Benstock, “The Masculine World of Jennifer Johnston”, in Thomas F. Staley, editor, Twentieth-Century Women Novelists, London: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 199

    In the case of translated literature, there may be considerable differences between how a book is paratextually presented in the source and target context, and it is the publisher who is the most important mediating agent of such changes.

    2012, Cecilia Alvstad, “The strategic moves of paratexts: World literature through Swedish eyes”, in Translation Studies, volume 5, number 1, →DOI, page 78

    This article analyses the discursive choices made in two of Criterion's Kubrick discs (Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove) in order to determine how Kubrick's authorship is framed paratextually.

    2017, Dru Jeffries, “Owning Kubrick: The Criterion Collection and the Ghost in the Auteur Machine”, in Cinergie: Il Cinema e le altre Arti, volume 12, →DOI, page 31

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Chicago

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