paratextually

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English

Etymology

From paratextual +‎ -ly.

Adverb

paratextually (not comparable)

  1. 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, →DOI, →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, →DOI, 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, →DOI, 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.
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