/lit/ - Literature

>>15606061
>Foreword
Terse statement denouncing the author as a misogynist and racist while admitting that the work in question may contain some value if read "critically" and/or "in the context of its time", followed by an acknowledgements section that accounts for at least 50% of the length of the foreword.
>Preface
Denounces the author as a racist and misogynist, along with several more-specific denunciations based on the particular nature of the work or the prefacer's pet bogies/academic meal tickets (not necessarily in that order).
>About the author
Denounces the author as a misogynistic racist, while puzzling over the paradox that he appears to have had warm feelings for certain women in his life. (If the author was a bachelor or a confirmed homo, will instead puzzle over the paradox of sucking dick while thinking blacks are kind of stupid and women are overrated.)
>Letter from [Author's friend]
Irrelevant personal correspondence, hopefully about either sex or misogynistic racism but if not at least justifies expensing a junket to wherever the author's collection is kept in order to make likely-rebuffed advances on the research assistant.
>Praise for [Author's previous works]
"I really prefer [author's previous work]. You've probably never heard of it." t. credentialed expert on [author]. Will be sure to mention the author's evolving perspectives on "social issues" (women, niggers, faggots).
>Praise for [This Specific Book]
Either a platitudinous blurb in fulfillment of a contract recommendation if the blurber is famous, or a solid page-length panegyric composed by a midlist author over several days in order to shill his own books as much as possible without violating contrary editorial directives.
>Translator's Commentary
Multipage thinly-veiled masturbatory account of how smart and hardworking the translator is.
>Publisher's note
Whining about how hard it is to typeset a book followed by a literal trigger warning for racism, misogyny.
>Author's note
"I hope the good Reader gratefully accepts my humble Work!"
>Comment from [Illustrator's third cousin]
Printed twitter shitpost from a female with an IQ in the 90s.
>Introduction
30+ page essay in breezy prose which contains all significant details of the plot, denounces the author's misogynistic racism along with any other DLC offenses against the publisher's commissariat, and declares how the reader should and should not interpret the work in question.
>Prologue
Primary text preceded by a paragraph-long italicized editorial note
>Chapter 1
Chapter heading has an editorial footnote

Also, don't forget the hundred and fifty pages of critical essays in the back of the book.

>>11311537
>YA lit
Is this the western equivalent to japan's "light novel," /sffg/?