4 episodes
The Paratexts Podcast Oxford University
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Dr Dennis Duncan looks at literary paratexts - the parts of a book that aren't the main text: indexes, prefaces, footnotes, errata lists...
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The Paratexts of Conrad Gessner
Professor Ann Blair on the uses of dedication and the multifarious paratexts of the early modern naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gessner (1516-65)
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Modernist Marginalia
Dr Amanda Golden discusses the notes and underlinings that writers like Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath made in their books. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Modernist Prefaces
Dr Sarah Copland on how Modernist writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad used the form of the Preface as a key to their own work, as well as the work of others.
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"To the Reader" Epistles
Dr Meaghan Brown discusses the early modern To the Reader epistle, in which publishers directly addressed their buying public.