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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2014
      March 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139168786
      9781107024366
      9781107607286
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139168786
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 334 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 334 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
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    What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting meaning, or the assumptions that underpin our own interpretation? These questions are central to the conceptual and practical concerns of the volume, which offers a synoptic study of Roman paratextuality and its exegesis within the broad sphere of Roman studies. Its contributions, which span literary, epigraphic and visual culture, focus on a wide variety of paratextual features - e.g. titles and inter-titles, prefaces, indices, inscriptions, closing statements, decorative and formalistic details - and other paratextual phenomena, such as the frames that can be plotted at various intersections of a text's formal organization.

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