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- noun Plural form of
paratext .
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Examples
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For a while you could have read Carter's new preface, some other paratexts, and the first 50 pages of the diary -- up to the entry for May 9, 1977.
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As Pale Fire progresses, rather than shedding light on the elliptical poem, these fictional paratexts instead begin to illuminate the delusional psychological state of the annotator.
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
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Romance Across the Media: crossover texts and the relationships between romance fiction and romantic films, music, art, drama, etc.; also the paratexts and contexts of popular romance
PCA/ACA Call for Papers Victoria Janssen 2009
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He is currently working on a book-length project on the use of artificial paratexts in fictional narratives.
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Within the science fiction magazines, the paratexts include the editorial comments, the blurbs, the "about the author" text, the illustrations, the cover painting, the letters page, etc.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Our Pulp Fiction Heritage and the Significance of Moldering Magazines Chris Perridas 2008
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Within the science fiction magazines, the paratexts include the editorial comments, the blurbs, the "about the author" text, the illustrations, the cover painting, the letters page, etc.
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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He is currently working on a book-length project on the use of artificial paratexts in fictional narratives.
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He is currently working on a book-length project on the use of artificial paratexts in fictional narratives.
DC Area Technology & Humanities Forum returns December 5th 2006
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While the broadcasts engage directly with their countertext, they are in often covert relation with another body of statements, which I will call paratexts.
Orwells BBC Broadcasts: Colonial Discourse and the Rhetoric of Propaganda 2002
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Eventually published together in the compendium War Fever (1990), these stories mischievously subvert classical notions of structure, form and content, unifying Ballard’s playful deployment of paratexts as narrative medium.
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
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