Hi Taylor, Great post! I think you are on to something here. After reading your insights, I decided to head over to YouTube and check out some of the user comments to see how viewers are reacting to the video. Almost immediately, I came across this exchan ...
Hi Ellen, Thanks for this great post! I get the impression that Díaz is working with not one, but two, primary texts with Oscar Wao. As he explains it: "The footnotes are there for a number of reasons; primarily, to create a double narrative. The foo ...
Thanks for this intriguing post, Angelina! Reading this, I was reminded of James Van Der Beek's recent role on the unfortunately named Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. Appearing as a fictionalized version of himself, Van Der Beek gives a t ...
Hi Johannes, and thanks for this great post! You make a number of interesting points. However, for me, what really stood out was how your clip captures the condition of perpetual liminality that seems to characterize the "paratext without a text" ...
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Paratexts as alternative narrative
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Perpetual Liminality