First and Last Words: Paratextual Guardianship and the Gendered Canonization of Frankenstein in Turkish Reception
This article examines how a Turkish ‘classics’ edition can structure reception through peritextual design. Using the İletişim Klasikleri’s 2019 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a case study, it argues that this edition constructs an ‘authority architecture’: a sequenced threshold that allocates interpretive po...