What I call “the cover design test” would be useful in Comp Lit discussions: i.e. if your theory of meaning (Marxist, Post Structuralist, Feminist, Freudian, Post Colonialist, etc.) cannot translate into a commercially viable book cover, then it fails at properly describing your text.

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JACKET MECHANICAL: 1. Fictions

Catching up on some reading; I read this footnote and reread it and thought “Dang, why didn’t any of my lit classes ever talk about the cover?”