Paratextually

Quick meaning: Paratextually is an adverb meaning In a paratextual manner; existing outside or beyond a text or work.

Meaning

In a paratextual manner; existing outside or beyond a text or work.

Example Sentences

Some contend that an author revealing a character's sexuality paratextually does not make it canon.

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.

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include extratextually, nontextually, metatextually, intratextually, extraneously, cybertextually.

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