Pretexts and Paratexts: The Art of the Peripheral

Maclean, Marie

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“…According to Marie Maclean (1991), paratexts lend the text authority. She suggests that they may even open up new considerations of authorial and editorial 'intention'.…”

Section: W H a T K I N D O F T H R E S H Ol D S D I D T H E P E R I Tmentioning

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The material trajectories of cultural texts:The Bookseller of Kabuland the ahistoric women of Afghanistan

Kuusela

2016

Critical Arts

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This article elaborates the usefulness of material culture studies for research on contemporary cultural products by representing books as transformable objects with social lives, the investigation of which is needed to better understand their social dimensions in times of global cultural flows. The article discusses the case of a controversial literary bestseller, The Bookseller of Kabul, from the perspective of its globally circulating material embodiments. By following the changing peritexts of this international bestseller, the article investigates how specific interpretations of the book proliferate. Special focus is placed on the ahistorical construction of Afghan women in the peritexts of the book.

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“…According to Marie Maclean (1991), paratexts lend the text authority. She suggests that they may even open up new considerations of authorial and editorial 'intention'.…”

Section: W H a T K I N D O F T H R E S H Ol D S D I D T H E P E R I Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

The material trajectories of cultural texts:The Bookseller of Kabuland the ahistoric women of Afghanistan

Kuusela

2016

Critical Arts

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“…For the time being, further information about Gazes' materials can be found in the Appendix. 14 In this respect, paratexts can be considered as both pre-texts, that is, texts that are placed before the main text(s) in manuscripts (or books), and pretexts, that is, the details which make both textual and editorial activities possible (see Maclean 1991: 277, who refers to observations made by Ross Chambers).…”

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Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections

Lorusso¹

2016

Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space Through Paratexts

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Aristotle discussed motion right at the beginning of Book 3 of Physics. […] Having completed his account of the elements and the other causes […] later on he investigates and teaches […] space and time. […] For a body is in a space, and motion happens to a body, and time is present in motion. Simplicius, On Aristotle's Physics 4-Prooemium (passim) 1 Preliminary remarks: Theory and materials x In this paper I study the temporal and spatial features characterising a representative selection of Greek manuscripts belonging to the Byzantine tradition. In particular, I focus on codices produced either in Byzantine workshops (alias scriptoria) from the Middle Ages (610-1453 CE) or in Italy, particularly in Rome in the workshop centred around Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472), one of the most influential Greek scholars and manuscript collectors in the Renaissance period. 1 Out of a total of thirteen codices examined here, twelve are kept in European collections today: one in the Laurentian Library in Florence, five in the Vatican Library, five in the National Library of St Mark's in Venice and one in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Another is kept in an Egyptian collection, Sinaiticus gr.

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“…In fact, as Genette 1987 andGuay 1998 highlight, the mobility of paratext is very common and not specific to the Chinese medical treatises and this mobility gives clues to understanding how the successive editors molded the reading of a book according to time and to their expected readership. 10 Cayuela 1996 andMacLean 1990 provide good examples of the interest of applying such an analysis to highlight what the authors are doing in these pieces of paratext. 11 As authors' names and book titles are given in Chinese characters in table 1, I give an English translation with the pinyin in the main text.…”

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The Construction of the Medical Writer’s Authority and Legitimacy in Late Imperial China through Authorial and Allographic Prefaces

Bretelle‐Establet

2011

N.T.M.

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Pretexts and Paratexts: The Art of the Peripheral

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The material trajectories of cultural texts:The Bookseller of Kabuland the ahistoric women of Afghanistan

The material trajectories of cultural texts:The Bookseller of Kabuland the ahistoric women of Afghanistan

Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections

The Construction of the Medical Writer’s Authority and Legitimacy in Late Imperial China through Authorial and Allographic Prefaces

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