Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
(Part of the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1477310681
ISBN13:9781477310687
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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