A Prospective Study On Network Literature Paratext

The network literature paratext includes two forms:one is the coated paratext, it was attaching to the network literature text, mainly have the effect of packaging and illustrating of the text; the other is intertextualitial paratext, existing in broading network space, having the function of interpretation and evaluation of the text. Network literature paratext can be divided into data paratext, text paratext, photo paratext, image paratext, game paratext and so on. Their relationship with the text is attaching to the text or independenting but referencing of the text, and others directly involving in the text. The network literature paratext not only have its commercial value and research value, but also has a certain value in literature. Different production and transmission mechanism of network literature paratext are different, its production motivations are complex, the transmission methods are varied. Some network literature paratext production are by commercial motives, some is out of the author or the reader’s emotional motivation, others and with the two kinds of motivation. The power of network literature paratext transmission are partly from the spontaneous spreading by online readers, the other come from pushing Hands. The network literature paratext are intricate, containing many available research information of the text, which has an important reference value in understanding the author and the network literature paratext. Additional, the other important significance is to helping tidiness the development of the network literature, building the foundation of network literary theory system: limited to the subject for the emphasis, content of the amount of cover and limitation of network literature study.The introduction mainly presenting the paratext theory’s putting forward and developing, focusing on the applied criticism field after its introducing, then taking it into network literature research field, and discussing the purpose and methods of network literature paratext research. The first chapter focusing on the defining of the network literature paratext, discussing its forms and its relationship with text. The second chapter mainly discussing the function of the network literature paratext and its negative effect:the cover of the text may cause. The third chapter mainly discussing the production and dissemination mechanism of network literature paratext, then discussing the motivations of different subjects participating in the activities of network literature production. The fourth chapter analysing the network literature phenomenon and the traditional criticism theory, discussing the meaning of this theory in making network literature text research, then give solutions to some problems existing in the network literature.