Dictionary

peritext en · NOUN

Etymology

By surface analysis, peri- + text.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:literary theory) Images and textual elements which surround, or are secondary to, the main body of a published work, such as an introduction, notes, front covers, etc.
   • Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts. 2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:
   • The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext. 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143:

Forms

Coordinates

context · paratext · subtext · epitext

Deriveds

peritextual