Paratexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paratexts write by Gerard Genette. This book was released on 1997-03-13. Paratexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.
Renaissance Paratexts
Renaissance Paratexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Paratexts write by Helen Smith. This book was released on 2011-05-19. Renaissance Paratexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.
Translation and Paratexts
Translation and Paratexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translation and Paratexts write by Kathryn Batchelor. This book was released on 2018-05-16. Translation and Paratexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the 'thresholds' through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have already sparked important scholarship in literary theory, digital studies and media studies. Translation and Paratexts explores the relevance of paratexts for translation studies and provides a framework for further research. Writing in three parts, Kathryn Batchelor first offers a critical overview of recent scholarship, and in the second part introduces three original case studies to demonstrate the importance of paratextual theory. Batchelor interrogates English versions of Nietzsche, Chinese editions of Western translation theory, and examples of subtitled drama in the UK, before concluding with a final part outlining a theory of paratextuality for translation research, addressing questions of terminology and methodology. Translation and Paratexts is essential reading for students and researchers in translation studies, interpreting studies and literary translation.
Show Sold Separately
Show Sold Separately - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Show Sold Separately write by Jonathan Gray. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Show Sold Separately available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and television It is virtually impossible to watch a movie or TV show without preconceived notions because of the hype that precedes them, while a host of media extensions guarantees them a life long past their air dates. An onslaught of information from print media, trailers, internet discussion, merchandising, podcasts, and guerilla marketing, we generally know something about upcoming movies and TV shows well before they are even released or aired. The extras, or “paratexts,” that surround viewing experiences are far from peripheral, shaping our understanding of them and informing our decisions about what to watch or not watch and even how to watch before we even sit down for a show. Show Sold Separately gives critical attention to this ubiquitous but often overlooked phenomenon, examining paratexts like DVD bonus materials for The Lord of the Rings, spoilers for Lost, the opening credits of The Simpsons, Star Wars actions figures, press reviews for Friday Night Lights, the framing of Batman Begins, the videogame of The Thing, and the trailers for The Sweet Hereafter. Plucking these extra materials from the wings and giving them the spotlight they deserve, Jonathan Gray examines the world of film and television that exists before and after the show.
The Brand of Print
The Brand of Print - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brand of Print write by Andie Silva. This book was released on 2019-10-01. The Brand of Print available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Brand of Print uses contemporary marketing theory to analyze prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts authored by early English printers, publishers, and booksellers as a unique genre, showcasing how these "print agents" developed niche markets by building relationships with readers.
