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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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