extratextual
adjective
ex·tra·tex·tu·al
ˌek-strə-ˈteks-chə-wəl 
-chəl
: of, relating to, or being something outside a literary text
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The book safe can also deliver an extratextual reference in the form of an object literally enveloped in text (albeit an unreadable one), as with the cache of minidiscs and cash concealed within a copy of Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in The Matrix.
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Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
The show is tinged with extratextual sadness, too.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
In a show with a number of thrilling extratextual embellishments (Chekhov lovers might not remember the volleyball game in Orchard, but somehow Krymov squeezes one in), the best is a huge new character, a railway timetable sign that seems to have attained consciousness.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 May 2022
The character is a big presence in the comic books on which the series is based, and the TV version seemed to rely on that extratextual knowledge to give the character gravitas and depth, rather than actually earning it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
Its pleasures are textual, extratextual, metatextual—the whole damn spectrum.
—Corey Atad, Esquire, 10 July 2017
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Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
The show is tinged with extratextual sadness, too.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
In a show with a number of thrilling extratextual embellishments (Chekhov lovers might not remember the volleyball game in Orchard, but somehow Krymov squeezes one in), the best is a huge new character, a railway timetable sign that seems to have attained consciousness.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 May 2022
The character is a big presence in the comic books on which the series is based, and the TV version seemed to rely on that extratextual knowledge to give the character gravitas and depth, rather than actually earning it.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
Its pleasures are textual, extratextual, metatextual—the whole damn spectrum.
—Corey Atad, Esquire, 10 July 2017
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“Extratextual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extratextual. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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