{"title":"Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext","authors":"K. Demoen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198836827.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 focuses on marginal texts in manuscripts that have (mainly) authors and their work as their subject (‘book epigrams’). The chapter examines their paratextual status as pieces dependent on and ancillary to a main text, which they present to the readers, shaping and influencing their expectations and reading by offering them explanation, interpretation, and advice on how to read. This status, it is argued, should be taken into account in the treatment of these epigrams in modern editions of the Greek Anthology. But the chapter also stresses their ‘fluidity’: literary transmission turns them from paratexts into texts, while variations of the same book epigram can fulfil unexpected functions.","PeriodicalId":296664,"journal":{"name":"Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836827.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 5 focuses on marginal texts in manuscripts that have (mainly) authors and their work as their subject (‘book epigrams’). The chapter examines their paratextual status as pieces dependent on and ancillary to a main text, which they present to the readers, shaping and influencing their expectations and reading by offering them explanation, interpretation, and advice on how to read. This status, it is argued, should be taken into account in the treatment of these epigrams in modern editions of the Greek Anthology. But the chapter also stresses their ‘fluidity’: literary transmission turns them from paratexts into texts, while variations of the same book epigram can fulfil unexpected functions.
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