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Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
University of Texas Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-1-4773-0979-7 | Cloth: 978-1-4773-0977-3 | Paper: 978-1-4773-1068-7 Library of Congress Classification PN6714.P59 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 741.59
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Boundaries | Comic books, strips, etc | Comics & Graphic Novels | History and criticism | Literature See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Texas Press, 2016
eISBN: 978-1-4773-0979-7
Cloth: 978-1-4773-0977-3
Paper: 978-1-4773-1068-7
eISBN: 978-1-4773-0979-7
Cloth: 978-1-4773-0977-3
Paper: 978-1-4773-1068-7
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
