paratextually
English
editEtymology
editFrom paratextual + -ly.
Adverb
editparatextually (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1982, Shari Benstock, “The Masculine World of Jennifer Johnston”, in Thomas F. Staley, editor, Twentieth-Century Women Novelists, London: Palgrave Macmillan, , →ISBN, page 199:
- 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.
- 2012, Cecilia Alvstad, “The strategic moves of paratexts: World literature through Swedish eyes”, in Translation Studies, volume 5, number 1, , page 78:
- 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.
- 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, , page 31:
- 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.