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Chapter 9. Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts

  • Mari-Liisa Varila
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The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on book producers’ metadiscourse related to text-organisation in 16th-century English printed paratexts. Paratexts offered authors, translators, and printers a convenient space for instructing the reader in navigating the contents of the book at hand. Choices related to text-organisation were occasionally highlighted on the title-page and described in more detail in prefaces or letters to the reader. In this chapter, I examine title-pages and prefaces to find out how book producers justified and clarified their methods of structuring text and information and whether text-organisation was used as a selling point in the early period of print in England.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on book producers’ metadiscourse related to text-organisation in 16th-century English printed paratexts. Paratexts offered authors, translators, and printers a convenient space for instructing the reader in navigating the contents of the book at hand. Choices related to text-organisation were occasionally highlighted on the title-page and described in more detail in prefaces or letters to the reader. In this chapter, I examine title-pages and prefaces to find out how book producers justified and clarified their methods of structuring text and information and whether text-organisation was used as a selling point in the early period of print in England.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Part I. Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena
  5. Chapter 1. Framing framing 3
  6. Chapter 2. On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext 33
  7. Chapter 3. The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing 63
  8. Chapter 4. Threshold-switching 91
  9. Chapter 5. Framing material in early literacy 115
  10. Part II. Framing and audience orientation
  11. Chapter 6. Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres 137
  12. Chapter 7. “All which I offer with my own experience” 163
  13. Chapter 8. “I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners” 187
  14. Chapter 9. Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts 209
  15. Part III. Form and layout in framing
  16. Chapter 10. Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing 233
  17. Chapter 11. Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century 267
  18. Chapter 12. Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts 289
  19. Index 309
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.317.09var

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Part I. Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena
  5. Chapter 1. Framing framing 3
  6. Chapter 2. On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext 33
  7. Chapter 3. The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing 63
  8. Chapter 4. Threshold-switching 91
  9. Chapter 5. Framing material in early literacy 115
  10. Part II. Framing and audience orientation
  11. Chapter 6. Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres 137
  12. Chapter 7. “All which I offer with my own experience” 163
  13. Chapter 8. “I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners” 187
  14. Chapter 9. Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts 209
  15. Part III. Form and layout in framing
  16. Chapter 10. Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing 233
  17. Chapter 11. Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century 267
  18. Chapter 12. Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts 289
  19. Index 309
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