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单词 parergon
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parergon

/pəˈrəːɡɒn /
noun (plural parerga /pəˈrəːɡə/)
1 formal A piece of work that is supplementary to or a by-product of a larger work: the second sonata is a parergon to the opera...
  • But the frame itself is part of a problematic list to which belongs such other terms like the parergon, the supplement and the hymen.
  • In his essay on vernacular photography, Geoffrey Batchen uses Derrida's term ‘parerga’ [literally ‘next to main work’] to describe the personal, intimate photographies that have fallen outside the canon of ‘proper’ photography.
  • The effect of this rethinking can be seen, for instance, in Paolo Giovio's reference to Dosso's landscape paintings as parerga - distinct from, yet necessarily linked to, the artist's ‘proper works.’
1.1 archaic Work that is subsidiary to one’s ordinary employment: he pursued astronomy as a parergon

Origin

Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek parergon, from para- 'beside, additional' + ergon 'work'.

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