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The Functionality of Paratexts on YouTube

, 2014
This chapter investigates paratexts and their functionality on YouTube. It is argued that YouTube content is in fact characterized by its dependence and usage of paratexts as part of YouTube's infrastructure.
Thomas Mosebo Simonsen, Simonsen, Thomas Mosebo; id_orcid   +1 more
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ANATOMY LESSONS: TRANS LIFE BETWEEN PORTRAITURE AND PERFORMANCE IN PAUL B. PRECIADO'S ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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Przekład tekstu naukowego i rola paratekstów

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2013
Translation of a scientific texts and role of paratexts The article analyses translator’s problems and the role of different paratexts (such as footnotes, comments, forewords, afterwords and text on the cover of books) in the translation of ...
Iwona Piechnik
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Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 507-531, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Essentially (Not) the Game:Reading the Materiality of Video Game Paratexts

, 2023
This chapter explores the role of materiality in video games and their associated paratexts, which provide entry points into game worlds. It categorizes these elements into three types: (1) physical and digital materiality, (2) essential and non ...
Seiwald, Regina
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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts

Renaissance 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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Parateksty gier cyfrowych – odbiór gry a paratekstualne funkcje i procesy

Teksty Drugie, 2017
Żmuda explores the printed paratexts of video games. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s theory of transtextuality, he points out that paratexts are related to authors’ attempts to control the texts’ reception.
Michał Żmuda
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

Renaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Renaissance 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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‘A different fabric’. The overt and the hidden in Joseph Conrad’s prefaces to his prose works

Napis, 2022
In A Familiar Preface to the ‘autobiographical’ volume A Personal Record. Some Reminiscences, Joseph Conrad provides that, in this work, there is no ‘veil’ separating the reader from the author.
Marek Pacukiewicz
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