Los paratextos del álbum ilustrado: la presencia de la función hermenéutica en los ganadores del Premio Internacional Compostela = Picturebook’s paratext: the presence of the hermeneutic function in Compostela International Prize’s winners = Els paratextos de l’àlbum il·lustrat: la presència de la funció hermenèutica en els guanyadors del Premi Internacional Compostel·la
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The processes of interpretation of contemporary narratives are increasingly subject to the detention of readers in their paratexts. This change is especially tangible in picturebooks, where paratexts progressively assume functions of different degrees, relevant for their narrative’s global reception. In this analytic and synthetic study, the level of paratext’s impact in the verbal and visual literary composition of the 14 International Compostela Prize’s winners is explored, proposing the hermeneutic category as a new function. To do this, a grid was designed, in which the various paratextual functions recognized by Literary Theory are recorded. On one hand, their presence or absence were identified and, on the other, the nuances of interpretive support for the picturebook’s narrative, beyond mere decoration, were distinguished. The results show that, although it is true that there is a clear tendency to give meaning to paratexts and relevance in literary composition, their full narrative potential has not yet been exploited