By Professor Laura Jansen
What's a paratext, and the place do we locate it in a Roman textual content? what sort of house does a paratext occupy, and the way does this house relate to the textual content and its contexts? How will we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this strategy recommend a couple of work's unique modes of plotting which means, or the assumptions that underpin our personal interpretation? those questions are crucial to the conceptual and functional matters of the quantity, which deals a synoptic learn of Roman paratextuality and its exegesis in the wide sphere of Roman experiences. Its contributions, which span literary, epigraphic and visible tradition, specialize in a large choice of paratextual positive aspects - e.g. titles and inter-titles, prefaces, indices, inscriptions, remaining statements, ornamental and formalistic information - and different paratextual phenomena, reminiscent of the frames that may be plotted at a number of intersections of a text's formal association.
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19) ‘all the poison’ (omnia . . 19) of the likes of Caesius, Aquinus and Suffenus. Hardly an off-the-shelf purchase; is this a bespoke copy compiled by Catullus and downloaded from the bookseller’s files into a unique roll by the bookseller’s scribes? 19 We need not think of an anthology of Caesius, Aquinus and Suffenus as making up a very long roll – the joke would soon wear thin. 20 Plenty of scope for Catullus 17 18 19 20 Theodorakopoulos (2007), especially 316–18. Of course, such recitation has its paratextual dimension as well; to cite Genette (1997b) 3 once more: ‘the sole fact of transcription – but equally of oral transmission – brings to the ideality of the text some degree of materialization, graphic or phonic, which .
May induce paratextual effects. ’4 He goes so far as to suggest that ‘every context serves as a paratext’,5 which calls to mind Derrida’s poststructuralist axiom, ‘there is no outside-text’ (‘il n’y a pas de hors-texte’), and is a reminder that these elements which attract Genette’s prepositional terminology are not definitively ‘beside’, ‘around’, ‘above’ or ‘accompanying’ their texts, but are in some sense part of them; moreover that ‘text’ cannot be reduced or confined to the modes of physical inscription that would enclose it, and that the meaning it generates is not final 1 4 Genette (1997b) 1.
All of these poems are explicitly paratextual in that their subject matter is the status of the book and its author. It is in part this obtrusive paratextual apparatus, so markedly different from the unadorned entrance to the love poetry of Propertius and Tibullus, that has persuaded so many readers of the Amores that Ovid’s subject is, in fact, not love but poetry, and that the authentic ‘plot’ of the collection is not the love story but the career narrative that stars the poet. Oliensis explores a Jupien effect in Amores 1, showing how its borders have ‘trapped’ readers in endless conversations with the author.