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 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 ... Read more
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Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature
Pizzino's book is an excellent work for understanding the medium of comics in a transatlantic Anglophone ... Read more