{"id":1572,"date":"2021-02-10T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T08:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:55:55","slug":"book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/02\/10\/book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks &#8211; Book Covers (1pm, Wed 17 Feb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Love them or hate them, book covers are often the first thing we encounter when browsing different forms of literature. In this week&#8217;s Page Breaks, we invite you to reflect on aspects of choosing and responding to a book cover. Do you have favourite examples? Least favourite? How would you choose your own? Come along to share your thoughts!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<blockquote>&#8220;The main principles of design\u2014in books, appliances, cars, clothing, everything\u2014are: <br \/>1: Your product must be bold and eye-catching and conspicuously different from everyone else\u2019s, but <br \/>2: Not too much!&#8221; (Tim Klein, &#8216;The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover&#8217;)<\/blockquote>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading)<\/h3>\r\n<p>This week, the reading is optional &#8211; feel free to just come along to join the conversation and\/or talk about book covers you&#8217;d like to share.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Tim Klein reflects on book covers in general, and the pitfalls of choosing one, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-book-cover\">&#8216;The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover&#8217; (New Yorker, 2013)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>You might also be interested in this very short reflection on generic exoticism in book covers with African themes: <a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2014\/05\/the-dangers-of-a-single-book-cover-the-acacia-tree-meme-and-african-literature\">Elliot Ross, &#8216;The Dangers of a Single Book Cover&#8217; (Africa is a Country, 2014).\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>A PDF version of the New Yorker article will be available to download on our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks-texts\/\">password-protected texts page<\/a> &#8211; email d.butchard@bham.ac.uk for access.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>&#8220;Time&#8221; and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 17 February, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/95106481660?pwd=QXd6cDRLdDMrbG0zaDhYRUxJQzBVdz09\">Link<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. 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Come along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/02\/10\/book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Page Breaks &#8211; Book Covers (1pm, Wed 17 Feb)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,3],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-21","category-page-breaks","tag-book-covers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}