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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"paratext"”.
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Reading Stories Old and New: The Poetics of Paratext in Gujin xiaoshuo
… text of the story entries themselves) and its paratexts (in this case, its front matter, illustrations, commentary, and adaptation history). Unfortunately, modern reprints of <italic>Gujin xiaoshuo</italic> and other late Ming works of literature tend to reproduce paratextual elements …
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Marketing Good Taste: Print Agents' Use Of Paratext To Shape Markets And Readers In Early Modern England
… how print agents shaped authorship, I argue that paratexts designed by print agents influenced the development of popular taste and even created new genres. Using contemporary marketing theory as an interpretative framework, this project traces the printing history of editions of single works in …
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Three English (Re)translations of the Chinese Historical Novel Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi): An Analysis of Social Context, Paratext and Text
… 1991, and 2014. The study employs textual and paratextual approaches to scrutinize manipulations exerted by translators and other agents, aiming to interpret these (re)translations within their distinct sociohistorical contexts. The exploration is conducted by contextualizing the …
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Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule
… between the noetic authorial text and the poetic paratext. The non-oppositional premise of collaborative dialogue is proposed as a method to resist the oppositional logic of dialecticism and the homogenous ‘third hand’ of collaboration theory. Michel Serres’ assertion that to ‘hold a dialogue is …
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Brahms's Kreisleriana : Johannes Brahms's identification with Johannes Kreisler
… relating to Gérard Genette's theory of the paratext, which is later used to clarifiy the function of Brahms's references to Kreisler.
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The Coquetterie of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Translator’s Note in Selections from Paroles
… published in 1965 and 1990, all contain a paratext written by the translator. Part One of this dissertation contains a detailed comparative textual analysis of the three published versions of this preface, and other elements of the publisher’s peritext. This examines the versions for any …
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Paratexte von Sagenbüchern
… Gérard Genette wurde unter dem Titel "Paratexte" ins Deutsche übersetzt. Genette beschreibt den Paratext als "jenes Beiwerk, durch das ein Text zum Buch wird und als solches vor die Leser und, allgemeiner, vor die Öffentlichkeit tritt." (Genette, Gérard: Paratexte. Das Buch vom Beiwerk …
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The waging of a virtual war against Islam: an assessment of how post-9/11 war-themed video games stereotype Muslims
… they create) and an analysis of game-related paratext (promotional materials, game reviews, player comments), this study identifies stereotypes within the war games that resemble many of the most common Muslim stereotypes found within Hollywood films and television shows. The analysis revealed …
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
… theoretical model for reading food commodity paratext in three dominant modes - the objective, the nostalgic, and the interventionary - that make foods edible, present, and sensible in a world of increasingly vexed choices. In sum, by laying out how food commoditization becomes the dominant …
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‘Harry Potter and the Transmedia Wizarding World’: Paratexts of the Harry Potter Franchise, 2011-17
This doctoral thesis examines five Harry Potter paratexts created between 2011-17 and seeks to understand their impact upon the franchise’s trajectory following the end of the Potter books (in 2007) and films (in 2011). As a piece of long-form analysis, the research represents a significant …
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Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction
… encyclopedic prolixity, manipulation of the paratext--that challenge modernist fiction's Spartan ideal. Grounded in recent scholarship concerning the cultural history of trash, the close readings I offer describe a general trend among certain prominent authors toward embracing and even …
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AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND: Dialogic and Exhibitionary Practices of Black Contemporary Artists and Curators in Art Museums
… physical presence in art museums. As a critical paratext to curatorial projectsThe Shadows Took Shape and In Black and White which I co-authored, this study examines Black artists’ roles as uniquely informed generators of address (speakers) and respondents within the art museum. Given the insular …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… us to detect the culturally relevant use of paratext in the analysed works and closely follow the development of Quaker women’s self-writing throughout the years. According to the analyses conducted in this study, the development of women Friends’ autobiographical space appears to be …
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Exploring the translation of feminist philosophy :Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe
… translators’ project as presented through paratext, arguing that a domestication approach can be a beneficial approach to translate feminist philosophy.Chapter One will present introductory background information on Simone de Beauvoir’s work in Le Deuxième Sexe, namely the main ideas …
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The Dindshenchas in the Book of Leinster
… and visual make-up of the collections – their paratext, mise-en-page, and ordinatio – are used to illuminate the critical categories, interpretations and intellectual frameworks of the compilers. Chapter I considers the nature of dindshenchas as portrayed in the scholarly literature, before …
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Особенности структуры повествования в письмах: эпистолярий Марины Цветаевой /
Like autobiographies, memoirs, diaries and notebooks, letters are autobiographical texts which problematize, in one way or another, the relationship between “poetry” and “truth”, i.e. fact and fiction, an issue that is examined by means of the literary conventions available to a given culture. This …
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The Young Sigurðr Section of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to): Compositional History and Interpretative Reading
… created. It starts with an examination of the paratext associated with the section in modern editions and in the manuscript, showing considerable and problematic differences between the two. Palaeographical analysis is then used to establish correlations between different types and combinations …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… tradition space of the diegesis in favor of a paratextual element instead. <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> serves here as the primary example of this paratextual application towards television with regards to metafictional conflation. </p>
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The Criterion of Quality: A Paratextual Analysis of the Criterion Collection in the Age of Digital Distribution
<p>In 2011, home-video distribution company, The Criterion Collection, teamed up with streaming-content provider Hulu, extending their business model to include online streaming to subscribers through Hulu Plus. With the rise of Over-The-Top (OTT) media distribution services into the at-home …
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