Abstrakt: | The present article aims to offer a general introduction to the phenomenon of paratexts
in the space of the Internet. In particular, the analysis concentrates upon the example
of allographic paratexts of Quebec literary works, whose Polish translations were
published throughout the first decade of the 21st century. The study embraces both the
editorial paratexts – which become epitexts in the virtual reality of the Net – as well
as descriptions of, and opinions on, selected novels, which originally appeared on the
Internet independently of the publication of their „traditional” editions. In the case of
epitexts in general, the analyzed text corpus performs its primary function, which is
that of presentation and recommendation. In the case of epitexts created by Internet
users, however, their primary function is that of evaluation ― a function characteristic
for write-ups and reviews. |