Litcomix : : Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel / / Adam Geczy, Jonathan McBurnie.
Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Yet, as graphic novels from Maus to Watchmen entered the literary canon, perhaps the time has come to develop theories for interpreting and evaluating graphic novels that are drawn from...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Theories
- 1. Literary Theory: The Relevant and the Real
- 2. Recuperating Realism: Lukács
- 3. Classic Novels, Classic Comics
- 4. Was Wertham Right? Comics as Antisocial and Subversive
- 5. The Balzac of Comics: Jack Kirby, World Building, and the Kirbyesque
- 6. Figurative Pseudonyms: Biography and Confession
- Part II. Case Studies
- 7. Josh Bayer
- 8. Nina Bunjevac
- 9. Simon Hanselmann
- 10. The Hernandez Brothers
- 11. Tommi Parrish
- 12. Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Conclusion: Our New Urizens
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index