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Embodiments of the Real: The Counterlinguistic Turn in the Comic-Book Novel
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This article used comic books to challenge some of the most basic tenets of the linguistic turn of twentieth-century critical theory, such as the notion of time, metaphor, and metaphor, as a source of readymade metaphors.Abstract:
Novels written about comic books possess a unique representational potential. Although many of these novels treat comics chiefly as sources of readymade metaphors, authors such as Rick Moody and Michael Chabon have expanded their figural lexicon. As serial narratives, comic books present novelists with a form of metonymic combination that can conflate or arrest time; as visual narratives, they offer the possibility of escaping conventional linguistic signification. The novels that translate these figurative strategies to prose use comics to challenge some of the most basic tenets of the linguistic turn of twentieth-century critical theory.read more
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Terrors of the Mirror and the Mise en Abyme of Graphic Novel Autobiography
TL;DR: The authors investigates the formal mechanics of autobiographical graphic novels to show how mirror scenes and their self-conscious play with pictorial identity forge autobiographical subjects, concluding that in frequency and function these mirror moments mark failed encounters with the real.
Postmodern materialism: things, people, and the remaking of the social in contemporary American narrative
TL;DR: This paper reinterpreted the critical orthodoxies of postmodern American literature by attending to the everyday objects that populate the worlds of narrative texts written from the 1960s to the first decade of the new millennium, and concluded that postmodern fiction is especially wellsuited for a critical remaking of the social because it is attuned to the ways in which the social is constantly being fashioned by the world of material objects.
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The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel
TL;DR: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel as discussed by the authors provides a complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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“A Word to You Feminist Women”: The Parallel Legacies of Feminism and Underground Comics
TL;DR: Crumb as mentioned in this paper states that "I’m gonna fucking well draw what I please to draw and if you don't like it, fuck you!" (Crumb 1971)
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Harvey Kurtzman and the Influence of Mad Magazine
TL;DR: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel as discussed by the authors provides a complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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Tropics of discourse : essays in cultural criticism
TL;DR: The Tropics of Discourse as mentioned in this paper develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage.
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Fundamentals of Language
TL;DR: This article present a critical survey of Roman Jakobson's views on phonology, a theory of sound patterns, and their stratification, ranging widely over many problems of language and its disturbances, literature and general symbolic behaviour.
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Fundamentals of Language
Roman Jakobson,Morris Halle +1 more
TL;DR: This volume consists of two studies, the first a joint essay presenting a critical survey of the author's views on phonology, a theory of sound patterns, and their stratification and an individual contribution from Roman Jakobson ranging widely over many problems of language and its disturbances, literature and general symbolic behaviour.
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Looking awry : an introduction to Jacques Lacan through popular culture
TL;DR: Slavoj?i?ek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" to Stephen King's "Pet Sematary, "from McCullough's "An Indecent Obsession "to Romero's "Return of the Living Dead" as discussed by the authors.