Buch: Medium und Form – in paratexttheoretischer Perspektive

Female Writing in Manuscript and Print: Two German Examples from the Cultural and Political Context of Late Seventeenth-Century Sweden – Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662–1728) and Eva Margaretha Frölich (?–1692)

“…Genette presents an important and very fruitful perspective on texts, which opens up interesting possibilities for the analysis of communication. Unlike many other theoretical concepts in literary and philological scholarship, paratext refers to an open system of features, which makes it possible to choose and concentrate on some of these features and different aspects thereof for specific analytical 4 For short overviews of the discussion, see Stanitzek (2007Stanitzek ( , 2010. 5 This fundamental material aspect is hinted at in one passage of the introduction, where he writes: '… the sole fact of transcription -but equally, of oral transmission -brings to the ideality of the text some degree of materialization, graphic or phonic, which […] may induce paratextual effects' (Genette 1997: 3).…”

“…5 This fundamental material aspect is hinted at in one passage of the introduction, where he writes: '… the sole fact of transcription -but equally, of oral transmission -brings to the ideality of the text some degree of materialization, graphic or phonic, which […] may induce paratextual effects' (Genette 1997: 3). Stanitzek (2010) further elaborates the material aspect of Genette's concept and criticizes approaches that view paratext entirely as text on the margin of a main text. For a discussion of recent issues of text materiality, see, for example, the contributions in Schubert (2010).…”