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  • Paratextual Art
  • David J. Alworth

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Gerard Genette's Paratexts (Cambridge University Press, 1997), front cover

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Front covers for Jonathan Culler's Structuralist Poetics (Cornell University Press, 1975) and Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious (Cornell University Press, 1981)


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Book cover of Augier's Four Plays (Knopf, 1915)


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Ernst Reichl's jacket for Ulysses (Random House, 1934)

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E. McKnight Kauffer's jacket for Ulysses (Random House, 1949)

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Carin Goldberg's cover for The Gabler Edition of Ulysses (Vintage, 1986)

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Original U.S. book jacket for The Buried Giant (New York: Knopf, 2015), design by Peter Mendelsund

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Original U.S. book jacket for The Last Werewolf (New York: Knopf, 2011), design by Peter Mendelsund

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Ishiguro's note to Mendelsund

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Edge staining

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Three paperback werewolf book covers, from Mendelsund's archive


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Original U.S. book jacket for White Tears (New York: Knopf, 2017)

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Mendelsund's sketches for White Tears

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Mendelsund's sketches for White Tears

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Mendelsund's sketches for White Tears

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Mendelsund's sketches for White Tears

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Mendelsund's sketches for White Tears

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Mendelsund's sketches for The Buried Giant

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J.R.R. Tolkien's first edition cover design for The Hobbit (1937)

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Map that appears on the inside boards of the 2015 Knopf edition of The Buried Giant

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David J. Alworth
Harvard University
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