"peritext" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "By surface analysis, peri- + text",
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  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, peri- + text.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143:",
          "text": "The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.",
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          "ref": "2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:",
          "text": "Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.",
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        "Images and textual elements which surround, or are secondary to, the main body of a published work, such as an introduction, notes, front covers, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-peritext-en-noun-RYy0Z-N9",
      "links": [
        [
          "introduction",
          "introduction"
        ],
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          "notes",
          "notes"
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          "front",
          "front"
        ],
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          "cover",
          "cover"
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        "(literary theory) Images and textual elements which surround, or are secondary to, the main body of a published work, such as an introduction, notes, front covers, etc."
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  "word": "peritext"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, peri- + text.",
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          "ref": "2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143:",
          "text": "The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:",
          "text": "Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.",
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