extratextual

Definitions

Outside of a text.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Meditation on reader-response and meaning seems tedious by comparison, and not always free from jargon: do we need⟳ to speak⟳ of a reader's 'ideational activity'? (p. 173); why do we need⟳ to 'actualize ourselves as a second and extratextual audience'? (pp. 110f.). Do we have⟳ to be told that ‘Eliciting the hermeneutical activity of characters and readers alike, oneirography like⟳ pictorial descriptions invites the inferential walk⟳’? (p. 81).”

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