Judging by the Cover

Abstract

Taking the late David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as its starting points, the article traces the significant influence of paratextual matters, in this case dust jackets, on the critical construction of the literary work. The essay combines textual analysis with a focus on the materiality and mediality of the text and book, and situates itself in the space between literary history and book history.

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