ABSTRACT This project promotes the argument that paratexts provide fertile ground in terms of reproducing ideologies, and thus for revealing various agents? purposeful use of power relations in determining discourse structures. The aim of the project is to focus on the linguistic and visual peritexts that can build multimodal platforms open to cultural and ideological interpretations, on the modes of ideology through which these interpretations are built (Thompson, 1990), and on the ways these peritexts can be used within the process of recontextualization. Through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, the project is designed on the basis of a reasonably large, well-structured and highly representative corpus of peritexts acting as the negotiator between two cultures, and accompanying 71 Turkish translations of 14 English/American modernist novels that were originally morally stigmatized in their source cultures. The project theoretically draws on Fairclough?s three-dimensional model within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). A research method was constructed within this theoretical framework, employing the linguistic tools provided by the Systemic Functional Linguistics model, which allowed the analysis of a) linguistic peritextual elements within the scope of Thompson?s five modes of ideology, and b) visual peritexts within the scope of Kress and Van Leeuwen?s (2006) theory of visual grammar. CDA was the basis for the classification and analysis of linguistic peritexts as instruments of entextualization. Visual elements (specifically, front and back covers) were classified and examined with respect to representational, interactive, and compositional metafunctions. The diachronic analyses based on the periods of 1940-1960, 1961-1980, 1981-2000, 2001-2021 provide highly significant findings in terms of revealing the extent of parallelism between a society's socio-political dynamics, its produced texts, and discourse-based practices.