As the 'thresholds' through which readers and viewers access texts, paratexts have already sparked important scholarship in literary theory, digital studies and

This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifical

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher a

This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually presented in a

In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book h