NCTE ELATE Homecoming Presentation-Louisville, KY
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Enchanted Services for Every Occasion
Peritextual Images in Young Adult Literature |
In this essay, we use Gross and Latham’s peritextual literacy framework (PLF) as a means for investigating how peritextual images serve the promotional and supplemental functions as defined by the PLF of winners of the Young Adult Library Services Association’s Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. We also employ Serafini’s categories of representational, interpersonal, and compositional structures in examining how these images serve to arouse curiosity and to provide additional information that enhances the reading experience and invites readers to cross the threshold and enter the text proper
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EXPLORE THE PLF
The Peritextual Literacy FrameworkThe peritextual literacy framework (PLF) is a tool for accessing, evaluating, and comprehending the content of media using elements that frame the body of a work and mediate its content for the user. Paratextual elements are the focus of research in classification, bibliometrics, reader’s advisory work, and in studies of authorship and publication. However, paratextual theory is just beginning to be acknowledged in LIS. The PLF closes a gap in paratext theory by categorizing the functions of peritext.
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