Game Engine Conventions and Games that Challenge them: Subverting Conventions as Metacommentary [PDF]
, 2016 Consumer-grade game engines such as Multimedia Fusion and RPG Maker have dramatically extended the reach of digital games as a medium. They have also spawned online communities, where conventions and canons of using these tools have evolved. These partly
Fiadotau, Mikhail
core +1 more source
The rise of the comics künstlerroman, or, the limits of comics acceptance: the depiction of comics creators in the work of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel [PDF]
, 2018 The künstlerroman is a genre with a long and celebrated past. From Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park (2005) to John Irving’s The World According to Garp (1978) and Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift (1975), the genre has occupied a prominent place in bestseller ...
King, Daniel
core +3 more sources
Reseña: Translation and Paratexts
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2020 La noción de paratexto en los Estudios de Traducción ha estado presente en investigaciones y trabajos de índole práctico, pero también en reflexiones teóricas, que exploran cómo impacta en el proceso y en el producto de traducción la relación entre el ...
Olivia Correa-Larios
doaj +1 more source
Hoaxing the Media: 1920s Film Ballyhoo and an Archaeology of Presence [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter looks at 1920s ballyhoo stunts routinely deployed in the exploitation of cinema in the US, a set of uniquely ephemeral paratexts that exist only during performance. Yet despite this inherent ephemerality, these media paratexts matter for the
Fabrice Lyczba
core +1 more source
Print culture and visual interpretation in eighteenth-century German editions of Thomson's the seasons [PDF]
, 2012 A
Jung, Sandro
core +2 more sources
Translators' paratextual visibility and the functions of paratexts: A mixed-methods study
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThe study goes beyond the translated texts to analyze the often-overlooked area of translatorial paratexts, specifically examining the understudied corpus of English translations of Arabic novels published in the United States.
Fatima Alblooshi, Alaa Alasfour
doaj +1 more source
Arts of Memory, Ancient Manuscript Technologies, and the Aims of Theology
Religions, 2022 This article explores how ancient rhetorical theories about the improvement of human memory were applied to manuscripts in the form of paratextual ordering systems.
T. J. Lang
doaj +1 more source
Local flavour vs global audiences: Elena Ferrante and translatability [PDF]
, 2017 Through an analysis of the novels written under the pen name ElenaFerrante and of the paratextual elements that surround them, thisarticle examines the portrayal of Naples and its outskirts in thesenarratives, and how the specific geographical and ...
Segnini, Elisa
core +1 more source
«Exemplares novelas» e «novelas exemplares»: Os paratextos da ficção em prosa no século XVII [PDF]
Via Spiritus, 2012 Selecting as corpus a group of fictional prose narratives of considerable length, published in the 17th century, this paper, entitled ‘«Exemplary novels» and exemplary novels: the paratexts of fiction during the 17th century’ aims to study the group of ...
Maria Inês Nemésio
doaj
The characteristics of specialized text titles
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2016 The characteristics of specialized text titles The paper presents the characteristics of specialized text titles by comparing three English sets of such titles concerning two different subject fields: horse riding (classical and Western) and LSP ...
Eleonora Joszko
doaj +1 more source