Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts
Varila Mari-Liisa
Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts
Varila Mari-Liisa
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042824427
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042824427
Tiivistelmä
This chapter focuses on book producers' metadiscourse related to text-organisation in 16th-century English printed paratexts. Paratexts offered authors, translators, and printers a convenient space for instructing the reader in navigating the contents of the book at hand. Choices related to text-organisation were occasionally highlighted on the title-page and described in more detail in prefaces or letters to the reader. In this chapter, I examine title-pages and prefaces to find out how book producers justified and clarified their methods of structuring text and information and whether text-organisation was used as a selling point in the early period of print in England.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]