Richard Watts

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May 22, 2025

“Ways of Knowing” Episode 2: Paratext

There is more to literature than the text itself. Anything that surrounds the text — from the cover to chapter headings and author bios — is known as paratext. This is what transforms text into a book.   Richard Watts’s research focuses on this under-examined aspect of literature. In this episode, Watts, an associate professor…

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