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epitexts

epitexts is the plural of epitext.

Meaning of epitext

Noun

epitext (plural epitexts)

  1. 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

Questions about epitexts

What is epitexts the plural of?
Epitexts is the plural of epitext.

Words near epitexts in the dictionary

  1. epitepalous
  2. epitestosterone
  3. epitetrasulfide
  4. epitetrasulfides
  5. epitext
  6. epitexts
  7. epitextual
  8. epithalamia
  9. epithalamial
  10. epithalamiast
  11. epithalamiasts

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