A colophon, from the Greek for ‘summit’ or ‘finishing touch’, is a short piece of text, typically at the end of a book, giving details of some combination of the book’s date and place of printing, and sometimes the name of the printer or publisher.
A book of paratexts sounds like my kind of book! Thanks for this wonderful post! Reading it made me wonder about the paratexts of digital writing (like substack). Would you consider the copyright note at the bottom of ss posts an imprint?
yes that's interesting! maybe the way of reading online complicates the whole framing / conveying idea of paratexts, at least as genette describes them: being 'outside' and 'inside' a text works differently online, maybe.
A book of paratexts sounds like my kind of book! Thanks for this wonderful post! Reading it made me wonder about the paratexts of digital writing (like substack). Would you consider the copyright note at the bottom of ss posts an imprint?
yes that's interesting! maybe the way of reading online complicates the whole framing / conveying idea of paratexts, at least as genette describes them: being 'outside' and 'inside' a text works differently online, maybe.
Yes, we need Paratexts for the digital text. Would be interesting to think of advertisements, hyperlinks, and comments in this respect.
If you want digital paratext, I suggest you right-click on the page, and choose "View Page Source". HTML code! Yummy!
Mike