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Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
Christopher Pizzino
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Description for Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
Paperback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Condition
New
Weight
379 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477310687
SKU
V9781477310687
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About Christopher Pizzino
Christopher Pizzino is an assistant professor of contemporary US literature at the University of Georgia.
Reviews for Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
Pizzino's book is an excellent work for understanding the medium of comics in a transatlantic Anglophone world.
INKS
Arresting Development is an excellent point of connection between previous and current scholarship of the contemporary comics era-a project that encourages scholars to embrace the complexity of what it means to read and study comics.
Studies ... Read more
INKS
Arresting Development is an excellent point of connection between previous and current scholarship of the contemporary comics era-a project that encourages scholars to embrace the complexity of what it means to read and study comics.
Studies ... Read more