Epitext
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Textual material which surrounds a work but is not part of the text or its peritext, including published interviews, private correspondence, diary entries and the like.
"It is the second category which I christen, for want of a better word, epitext and which will be the subject of the last two chapters."
Example
More examples"It is the second category which I christen, for want of a better word, epitext and which will be the subject of the last two chapters."
Etymology
By surface analysis, epi- + text.
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