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Using gaming paratexts in the literacy classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper illustrates how digital game paratexts may effectively be used in the high school English to meet a variety of traditional and multimodal literacy outcomes.
Apperley, Thomas, Walsh, Christopher
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Translating Feminism: Paratexts in the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish Translations of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963)

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter focuses on the paratexts of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book The Feminine Mystique in its Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish translations. More precisely, the study sets out to investigate how the feminist message of the source text is affected when ...
Axelsson, Marcus
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Pilgrimage and its paratexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This thesis analyses the paratexts of Dorothy Richardson’s long modernist novel sequence, \(Pilgrimage\). Peritexts, such as the prefaces to \(Pilgrimage\), and epitexts, such as letters written by Richardson and others about \(Pilgrimage\), are ...
Stanton, Renée Jane
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Marginally Different:The Ludic Tendencies of Videogame Paratexts

open access: yes
Videogames exist within a network of ancillary material known as “paratexts” (Genette 1997, 2; Consalvo 2017), extending from conception to sale (Kerr 2006, 4; Gray 2010).
Seiwald, Regina
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Chaucer’s Pardoner in Slovenian and the significance of paratext in making meaning in translation

open access: yesStridon, 2023
The article examines the Slovenian translations of Chaucer’s collection The Canterbury Tales with a focus on the character of the Pardoner and his gender and sexual non-normativity as discussed by critics in the last century. The 1974 and 2012 Slovenian
Andrej Zavrl
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Conrad Gessner’s Paratexts [PDF]

open access: yesGesnerus, 2016
Throughout his prolific publishing career Conrad Gessner composed abundant paratexts which offer valuable insight into his methods of working. Gessner wrote many dedications, only a minority of which were addressed to major patrons of his day. Instead he used them to thank dozens of physicians and scholars for sending him information, images, and ...
openaire   +4 more sources

The paratext of digital documents [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Documentation, 2020
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to provide a discussion on how to apply Genette's concept of the paratext to analyze digital documents. The article argues that the concept, despite its shortcomings, is useful because it gives us the terminology to analyze elements often ignored and overlooked.Design/methodology/approachBy taking Gérard Genette's ...
openaire   +1 more source

Paratext

open access: yesKNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 2020
This article presents Gérard Genette’s concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in disciplines other than literary studies and for media other than printed books is discussed. The last section shows the relevance of the concept for library and information science in general and for ...
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The Making of a Non-Retranslation through Paratexts : Bonjour tristesse in Eight Swedish Editions 1955–2012

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter explores paratexts—producer-created peritexts and receiver-created epitexts—in connection with Lily Vallquist’s Swedish translation of Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan.
Svahn, Elin
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A Transitivity Analysis of Prefaces Written for Modernist Novel (Re)Translations: Understanding Paratexts as a Tool of Recontextualization

open access: yesEnglish Studies at NBU, 2023
This study focuses on paratexts as recontextualization tools, specifically prefaces written for (re)translations, and problematizes Turkish (re)translations of modernist novels written in English, which, for reasons of morality, encountered legal ...
Neslihan Kansu-Yetkiner   +5 more
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