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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"paratexts"”.
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Violence, Paratexts, and Fandoms: The Walking Dead as a Societal Mirror
… aired on AMC on October 23rd, 2016. Focusing on paratexts, fandoms, and the violence/horror genre as the theoretical framework, the project highlights fans role in the contemporary age of television and provides insight into how much violence and gore is acceptable for fans of the genre. This …
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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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Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: paratexts and polemical texts in seventeenth century French theater
… After comparing tragedy and comedy and analyzing paratexts to tragedies from the 1640s to 1660s, I offer an interpretation of Racine's choice to re-write several prefaces to his most famous plays. Taken together, these three chapters reveal a dynamic legacy of the Querelle du Cid in the way that …
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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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The use of paratextual devices in broadcast promotion: a content analysis of season three of Glee on Facebook
… and build brand awareness and engagement. Visual paratexts, such as images and videos, were used more widely than text-based paratexts. Some of the most frequently employed paratexts included previews/sneak peeks/promos, cast-member specific posts, spoilers or teasers, and music video clips. Posts …
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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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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
… In so doing, there is a particular focus on how paratexts translate academic models of authoritative writing into their poems. This thesis addresses a number of key questions: how do modern poets express ideas about the past? How do their borrowings from academic and scholarly texts shape this …
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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
… reader feedback. A qualitative analysis of the paratexts unveils strategic adjustments of
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Permutations of cinephilia: aesthetics, technology, and social consciousness
… developments. I conclude that the DVD, digital paratexts, and the blogosphere have dramatically changed both the face and reach of film studies.
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… of Hugo Cabret</em> and its surrounding paratexts are but one example of how our construction of childhood is slowly changing to acknowledge the skills and abilities fostered by our digital age as readers synthesize, seek out, and interact with multiple forms of media.</p>
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Spain in translation: a study of Spanish fiction in English translation 2000-2015
… literary marketplace, drawing on publishers’ paratexts and critical reviews. Analysing the most active authors between 2000-2015 from Spain in English translation I will triangulate the data shown from these diverse sources with stylistic analysis of a sample from each category, to ascertain …
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The Expanded 'Verse: Serialized Transmediality in Firefly/Serenity
… that the framework of a text, made up of paratexts including trailers and DVD extras, must be included in textual analysis. Here, I propose that this notion may be productively coupled with a theory of seriality––we may frame this phenomenon in the filmic terms of a narrative being …
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Gaming Like a State: Historical Strategy Game Victoria and "Keyboard Politics" in China
… By examining the game design and analyzing paratexts from the Chinese player community—including forum discussions, game reviews, video recordings, and user-created mods— this research investigates the interaction between the technological affordance and the players, who bring their …
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Reading and meaning : the reception of Boccaccio's Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus claris to 1520
… three categories of evidence used: materiality, paratexts, and traces of reading. Chapter 5 complements the first chapter by evaluating how the presentation of Boccaccio's autograph manuscripts reflects his intended readership. In Chapters 6-8 I proceed to discuss the reception of the Teseida, …
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The D-Day Landings in First-Person Shooters (1999-2005): A Case Study in Cultural Imperialism and the Americanisation of Popular History
… which narrative is communicated to the players: paratexts; cinematics; and gameplay – each containing their own strategies according to the medium in which they exist. A great number of narratives can be found at every level that correlate with those that benefit the US government, such as …
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PLAYING TRANSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF MEANINGFUL TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES
… significant transgender representation, analyzed paratexts like published interviews and game wikis, and utilized semi-structured interviews with three game creators and consultants, one game journalist, and 31 players that had encountered these eight characters to answer my research questions. I …
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… and artistic ideas, apparent in the texts and paratexts of pirated books. I examine how these disputes play out in reprints of the works by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Southey that became cornerstones of radical culture. The dissertation goes on to discuss how the underground economy of …
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“I Will Take Your Answer One Way or Another”: The Oscar Wilde Trial Transcripts as Literary Artefacts
… work with the help of Genette’s concept of paratexts, there will be a short digression by having a look at Wilde’s ‘autobiography’ De Profundis. The intention of this paper is to depict the relevance of the trials in the context of understanding Wilde’s work. Limited in its volume, this …
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The Classic-Novel Adaptation from 1995 to 2009
… televisual context is highlighted alongside the paratexts which shape and surround adaptations. At the same time, the enduring (yet often dismissed) notion of ‘fidelity’ is recognised and developed, as expectations of faithfulness extend beyond the literary text to privilege the legacies of prior …
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The Scribes and Correctors of Codex Vaticanus: A Study on the Codicology, Paleography, and Text of B(03)
… structure of B(03) and then its formatting and paratexts. When these features are combined, the identification of overlapping irregularities can be used to flag potential loci of scribal transition. Part II follows a new division of scribes in B(03) and examines the types and methods of …
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