Arresting Development : : Comics at the Boundaries of Literature / / Christopher Pizzino.
Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and marginalizat...
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Pizzino, Christopher, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Arresting Development : Comics at the Boundaries of Literature / Christopher Pizzino. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From the Basement -- Chapter One. Coming of Age: The Problem of the Bildungsroman -- Chapter Two. Autoclastic Icons: Picturing Illegitimacy -- Chapter Three. Pop Art Comics: Frank Miller -- Chapter Four. The Scandal of Pleasure: Alison Bechdel -- Chapter Five. Rolling in the Gutter: Charles Burns -- Chapter Six. Blood and Fire: Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion. On Becoming a Comics Scholar -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary illegitimacy and the struggles for status that marked their earlier history. Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the medium’s troubled past and their own tenuous status in contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works—Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets—exploring how their authors engage the problem of comics’ cultural standing. Pizzino illuminates the separation of high and low culture, art and pulp, and sophisticated appreciation and vulgar consumption as continual influences that determine the limits of literature, the status of readers, and the value of the very act of reading. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Comic books, strips, etc History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.7560/309773 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477309780 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477309780/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From the Basement -- Chapter One. Coming of Age: The Problem of the Bildungsroman -- Chapter Two. Autoclastic Icons: Picturing Illegitimacy -- Chapter Three. Pop Art Comics: Frank Miller -- Chapter Four. The Scandal of Pleasure: Alison Bechdel -- Chapter Five. Rolling in the Gutter: Charles Burns -- Chapter Six. Blood and Fire: Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion. On Becoming a Comics Scholar -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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