Peritext

Quick meaning: Peritext is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.

Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.

Word Forms

• peritexts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epitext, paratext, intext, undertext, surtext, intertext.

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