peritext
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editperitext (plural peritexts)
- (literary theory) Images and textual elements which surround, or are secondary to, the main body of a published work, such as an introduction, notes, front covers, etc.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143:
- The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.