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Public Identity, Paratext, and the Aesthetics of Intransparency: Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head

  • Jon, Bumsoo
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.1167-1191
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    • 2012
  • For Romantic women writers the paratext itself is essentially a masculine literary space affiliated with established writing practices; however, this paper suggests that Charlotte Turner Smith's mode of discourse in her use of notes and their relation to the text proper are never fixed in her contemplative blank-verse long poem, Beachy Head (1807). Even though the display of learning in the paratext partly supports the woman writer's claim to authority, this paper argues that Smith's endnotes also indicate her way of challenging the double bind for women writers, summoning masculine authority on the margins of her book while simultaneously interrogating essentialist thinking and instructions about one's identity in a culture and on the printed page. The poem shows how the fringes of the book can be effectively transformed from a masculine site of authority to an increasingly feminized site of interchange as Smith writes with an awareness of patriarchal, imperial abuses of power in that area of the book. There is a persistent transgression of cultural/textual boundaries occurring in Beachy Head, which explores the very scene and languages of imperial encounter. Accordingly, if Wordsworth's theory of composition suggests a subjective and abstract poetic experience-an experience without mediation-in which its medium's purpose seems to be to disappear from the reader's consciousness, an examination of the alternative discourse of self-exposure in Smith's poem reveals the essentially fluid nature of media-consciousness in the Romantic era, which remains little acknowledged in received accounts of Romantic literary culture.

Mobile Mixed Reality Storytelling as Spatial Paratexts (공간적 파라텍스트로서의 모바일 혼합현실 스토리텔링)

  • Kim, Yeojin;Lee, Younjae;Nam, Yanghee
    • Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2015
  • Giving birth to a new concept of spatial paratext which originated from literature criticism, this paper attempts to illuminate new value, meaning and properties of mobile mixed reality. While physical places can be regarded as 'langue' that refers to fixed structure and main text at the same time, user created participatory authoring in that place and his(her) spatio-temporal trace corresponds to 'parole', and their merging into mobile mixed reality storytelling can be viewed as 'paratexts'. We proposed a design and implementation methods for establishing spatial paratexts, also with aesthetic transformation experiments with them. In this way, we gave shape to the concrete concept and realization methods of mobile mixed reality as spatial paratext.

Web TV in Network TV: Digitextuality and Hybridization of Media Labor in My Little Television

  • Jung, Sookeung
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.59-81
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    • 2017
  • The emergence of the new audiences floating across multimedia platforms and engaging in TV production and distribution have forced producers and broadcasters to think of not only the fragmented distribution of their content but also the development of a new format beyond the frame of traditional TV production. A Korean entertainment TV show My Little Television combining the form of live webcasting and traditional TV show reflects such a trend. Because of the distinct format, My Little Television carries out a unique strategy in managing the two screens - Internet and TV. The dualistic production requires all players to understand not only online subculture and communication styles and methods, but also implicit and explicit rules of traditional TV production. Through text and visual image analysis on the show, this study discusses how MLT negotiates with the original Internet text, the producers' paratext, and the supertext of the national TV network in the context of the transitory screen culture.

A Study on Transtextuality and Effect on Replayability of Easter Eggs in Digital Games (디지털 게임에 나타난 이스터에그의 트랜스텍스트성과 리플레이어빌리티의 향상 연구)

  • Nam, Seo-Hyun;Han, Hye-Won
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.3-18
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    • 2022
  • This study focuses on transtextuality of Easter egg and its effect on replayability. This paper categorizes Easter eggs of digital game into five types based on game elements, and applies Gerard Genette's transtextuality theory by analyzing function and meaning of Easter eggs based on quotation, allusion, and annotation of intertext and paratext. In conclusion, Easter eggs as transtext form game ritual by linking inside and outside of the game, as well as developers and players. Through this process, Easter egg enhances replayability of digital games by extending the narrative of the game.