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A fragment of a translation of Gérard Genette’s Paratexts: Thresholds of interpretation, and the translator’s introductory note

open access: yesШаги
Gérard Genette (1930–2018) was an outstanding French literary critic who made an enormous contribution to the study of poetics, narratology, rhetoric and pragmatics of literary texts.
N. S. Avtonomova
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Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Using Museum Audio Guides in the Construction of Prosthetic Memory

open access: yesJournal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2019
The intimacy and affective impact of the audio guide – and the spoken voice – could make it a suitable medium to represent and construct cultural memory.
Laura Bertens, Sara Polak
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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 231-253, April 2026.
Abstract This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin by analysing the title page, dedicatory epistle, catchwords, and headers of MS Codex 627, which imitates an edition of Hugh Plat's Delights for ...
Aylin Malcolm, Margaret C. Maurer
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 293-308, April 2026.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.
Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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‘End of the Goddamned thing!!’

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2018
The mystery fiction writer Erle Stanley Gardner and his publisher Thayer Hobson of Morrow devised an unusual procedure for connecting the first ten Perry Mason novels with ‘leads’ to provoke the reader’s curiosity, and so promote the sale of the ...
Richard Williams
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The visual, the textual, and the one‐dimensional: An exploration of the visual elements of bibliographic classification schemes

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 10, Page 1411-1427, October 2025.
Abstract Classification schemes are a key way of organizing bibliographic knowledge, yet the way that classification schemes communicate their information to classifiers receives little attention. This article takes a novel approach by exploring the visual aspects contained within classification schemes.
Deborah Lee
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Translator plagiarism and eclectic translations

open access: yesCuadernos AISPI, 2023
Literature lives on translation, is fed by  translation. Judezmo literature may be absent from world literature, but world literature is omnipresent in Judezmo literature.
Michael Studemund-Halévy
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