The Paratexts Podcast

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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...

Episodes

  1. 08/03/2016

    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)

    37 min

  2. 07/13/2016

    Modernist Marginalia

    Dr Amanda Golden discusses the notes and underlinings that writers like Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath made in their books.

    29 min

  3. 06/06/2016

    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.

    22 min

  4. 05/24/2016

    "To the Reader" Epistles

    Dr Meaghan Brown discusses the early modern To the Reader epistle, in which publishers directly addressed their buying public.

    36 min
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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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    Oxford University
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  • Episodes
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