New Criticism excluded factors such as an author's biographical details, historical circumstances and other so-called extratextual materials to arrive at an interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Jeep Barrels Past the Drama] Reference
But that JK would make such an extratextual revelation. From Wordnik.com. [A Real Conversation, Slightly Fictionalized for Dramatic Purposes « Whatever] Reference
The job of a translator is to deactivate that mine field of extratextual references. From Wordnik.com. [The Peritextual Environment] Reference
So that the distinction must be found in some extratextual source which will be discussed in upcoming entries. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » WINE WARS, PART 2–21ST AMENDMENT TEXT:] Reference
As such we are dealing with no ordinary crime novel, but rather a complex, intertextual and extratextual, literary work. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
By evening's end, the crowd is on the side of the performer-inmates, even though many admit their crimes during the various extratextual scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners Play Jurors in a Land of the Guilty] Reference
This principle - that the original understanding of the term "the judicial power" supports extratextual content - has far-reaching possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [First day.] Reference
I think that the origin of the ludological position -- Aarseth's Cybertext -- interprets the extratextual as something very different from what we as cultural scholars understand as production and consumption, culture, or use. From Wordnik.com. [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference
"Pulp all biographies," he declared, and insisted that one should - and he did - make all of his judgments about books with no help from any extratextual knowledge or context, certainly not biography or history "excruciatingly boring". From Wordnik.com. [Argument and monologue] Reference
But it all falls apart when considering the extratextual reality, which is simple: The Colbert Report has made kings and magic both, simply by mashing the personal and political into a digestible, hilarious and, most importantly, understandable narrative for mass consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Roll Call Slams The Colbert Report. Bears Win.] Reference
Why continue to intone Biblical or liturgical language when there's no extratextual referent?. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
On the basis of current evidence from the program and extratextual "features", it seems increasingly likely that the fantastic elements will eventually be resolved in science fictional terms. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
A third point, concomitant to the second, is that despite recent technical advances, screen-based media still cannot, and may not ever fully be able to, deliver the extratextual cues and phenomenological traces that support, inform and extend the meaning of written documents. From Wordnik.com. [UgoTrade] Reference
After all, as we leave the theater, recycle our 3-D glasses, and rub our eyes to adjust to the light outside the theater, it’s Colonel Quaritch’s world, not Neytiri’s, into which we must make our exit—and this, after the fact, is his extratextual triumph. From Wordnik.com. [‘Avatar’ and the War of Genres « Gerry Canavan] Reference
The other extratextual triumph, of course, is that the humans will be back for more unobtainium in Avatars, and back in force — and that this time they may even remember the sacred truth Cameron himself once taught us: that space marines don’t need to invade, they can nuke a site from orbit, just to be sure. From Wordnik.com. [‘Avatar’ and the War of Genres « Gerry Canavan] Reference
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