Paratext
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In literary theory Paratext is, according to Gérard Genette in his work, Paratext: Thresholds of interpretation, "More than a boundary or a sealed border, the paratext is, rather, a threshold". It is "a zone between text and off-text, a zone not only of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an influence that ... is at the service of a better reception for the text and a more pertinent reading of it". Then quoting Philipe Lejeune, Genette further describes paratext as "a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole reading of the text".
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