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Secondly, there is no cast-iron evidence in the form of prefaces or postfaces to Chinese works added by Korean editors and included in Japanese editions, as happened in the Edo period.

But he focuses here on the two authorial postfaces appended to his most celebrated work, Baopuzi, translated as The Master Embracing Simplicity.

Reign dates appear on the bases of porcelain bowls, on lacquer vases and Buddhist stelae, in the prefaces or postfaces of woodblock printed books and on copper cash.

D'apres Genette (1982: 155), la paratextualite qui englobe des elements comme titres, sous-titres, intertitres, epigraphes, prefaces, postfaces, illustrations et commentaires marginaux influence aussi bien la portee du discours que la reception du texte par le public.

She notes that both narrator and author share the same characteristic of 'variabilite', and cites in this connection the innumerable 'volte-face' to be found in Montherlant's prefaces and postfaces. I would go further than this by suggesting that, in both novels and theatre, Montherlant occasionally plays with the reader (or spectator) by displaying the same 'alternance' as an author that he has described as being typical of his characters.

They successively consider the publisher's peritext (i.e., the book's format, cover, title page, typesetting, and printing); the name of the author; the titles; the "please-insert" (i.e., the blurbs); the dedications and the inscriptions; the epigraphs; the prefaces (introductions, forewords, postfaces, etc.); the intertitles; the notes; the public epitext (i.e., the elements not materially appended to the text that are addressed to the public, like reviews and interviews); and finally the private epitext (i.e., the elements not materially attached to the text that are addressed to a confidant, like letters and diaries).