epitext
epitext noun: textual material which surrounds a work but is not part of the text or its peritext, including published interviews, private correspondence, diary entries and the like.
Noun
epitext (plural epitexts)
- Textual material which surrounds a work but is not part of the text or its peritext, including published interviews, private correspondence, diary entries and the like.
- It is the second category which I christen, for want of a better word, epitext and which will be the subject of the last two chapters.1991, Gérard Genette, “Introduction to the Paratext”, in New Literary History, volume 22, number 2, page 264
- The concepts of “epitext” and “peritext” continue to be useful for the analysis of digital literature on portable electronic devices but need expansion as categories.2013, Ellen McCracken, “Expanding Genette's Epitext/Peritext Model for Transitional Electronic Literature: Centrifugal and Centripetal Vectors on Kindles and iPads”, in Narrative, volume 21, number...
Forms of epitext
| plural | epitexts |
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Origin of epitext
By surface analysis, epi- + text.
Words formed from epitext
Questions about epitext
- What does epitext mean?
- Epitext means textual material which surrounds a work but is not part of the text or its peritext, including published interviews, private correspondence, diary entries and the like.
- What part of speech is epitext?
- Epitext is a noun.
- What is the plural of epitext?
- The plural of epitext is epitexts.
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