peritext
peritext noun: 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.
Noun
peritext (plural peritexts)
- 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.
- The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143
- 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.2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252
Forms of peritext
| plural | peritexts |
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Origin of peritext
By surface analysis, peri- + text.
Words formed from peritext
Questions about peritext
- What does peritext mean?
- Peritext means 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.
- What part of speech is peritext?
- Peritext is a noun.
- What is the plural of peritext?
- The plural of peritext is peritexts.
Words near peritext in the dictionary
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