Ellen McCracken
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The fake trailer as a double simulacrum
Interesting cultural reversal that's being highlighted in the posts this week. The paratext comes into being before the text is created--if it ever will be. Could it be that in this age of sensory overload people are more interested in short snippets ... -
Are we using "text" too broadly?
Love your work, Jonathan, but like Johannes, I'd urge a bit more refining of categories here. It's great that you're pushing us to reconfigure what we mean by "text," and provocatively suggesting that text and paratext are one. Bu ... -
Additional categories of transtextuality
Great post, Johannes. I think some of Genette's other categories of transtextuality are useful for analyzing this fake paratext. You delineate a number of implicit intertexts available for viewers and these all depend on individual cultural "com ...