File:Libertineback.jpg
Critical commentary accompanies this image. Source: Ballantine Books Web source: http://www.bobkaye.com/ilibertine.html
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Fair use rationale
This book cover qualifies as fair use since the book is the subject of the critical commentary.
| Non-free media information and use rationale for Jean Shepherd | |
|---|---|
| Description |
Jean Shepherd posed as Frederick R. Ewing on the back cover of Ballantine's I, Libertine (1956). |
| Source |
book cover |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
back cover, cropped |
| Low resolution? |
234 × 393 pixels, of such low resolution as to have no commercial value whatever |
| Purpose of use |
forms part of the critical commentary on a book discussed in depth in the article, beyond what words can show |
| Replaceable? |
no free image exists or can be created in relation to the subject matter. |
| Other information |
image depicts a significant episode in the career of Jean Shepherd, specifically the creation of a spurious book by a pseudonymous author, and subsequent production thereof. As such it helps to define the author's relationship with fans (who requested the book despite knowing it didn't exist) and his creative mingling of truth and fiction, a major part of his work. |
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