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The rise of the graphic novel : computational criticism and the evolution of literary value
\"Bringing digital methods to the study of comics, this book traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture. Based on a collection of 250 titles, it shows how the genre builds on the style of popular comics while adapting selected features of the novel\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How We Read Comics Now: Literary Studies, Computational Criticism, and the Rise of the Graphic Novel
North American comics have seen tremendous growth in artisan production, a process that has gone hand in hand with the elevation of comics creators to the status of auteurs. Combining computational analysis with cultural sociology, this essay aims to better understand the rise of the graphic novel as an emergent literary genre and offers an alternative to the close readings that dominate comics scholarship. Rather than privileging individual case studies, this essay examines the strategies that have allowed artists to elevate the cultural prestige of graphic narratives and emphasizes the form’s generic and stylistic diversity.
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Ordinary Madness: Don DeLillo's Subject from \Underworld\ to \Point Omega\
Point Omega, Don DeLillo's latest novel, is haunted by the breakdown of social relations. Framed by the evocation of Douglas Gordon's video 24 Hour Psycho, the book follows Richard Elster, a retired intellectual hired to provide justification for the Iraq War (28). DeLillo's protagonist seeks to escape from history and violence, guilt and consciousness. His avowed goal of non-relation, the abandonment of interaction for the desert landscape of the American southwest, has already been achieved by his daughter Jessie, and so it is she who is described as the bleak future of humanity: One day soon all our talk, his and mine, will be like hers, just talk, self-contained, unreferring. We'll be here the way flies and mice are here, localized, seeing and knowing nothing but whatever our scanted nature allows. A dim idyll in the summer flatlands.
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Noir Affect
Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir's negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.
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Sacco with Badiou
Over the last decade, literary and cultural critics have taken increasing note of Joe Sacco’s perceptive portrayals of trauma, hailing his dispatches from the world’s conflict zones that have few equals in any medium. Sacco’s harrowing images of poverty and destruction not only communicate the suffering of distant Palestinian villagers or Bosnia’s war-ravaged generations, but also “restore a sense of humanity to those dehumanized by the pace of globalized media.”¹ Scholarly opinion depicts Sacco as a witness to global suffering and contends that as readers of his graphic reportage we too become witnesses, in the process bridging the gap between
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Collective subjects, emancipatory cultures and political transformation
What is striking about Hardt and Negri's project is its equal insistence that subjectivity be understood as inescapably collective, constructed in radical spaces where legal and corporate structures are challenged, and potentially amounting to an alternative understanding of political activity in the twenty-first century: through social networking that utilises mobile telecommunications and the internet; through the mobilities of migratory labour; and through the collaborative and communicative modes of work inaugurated by globalised corporations themselves. [...] a polemical stance against a preceding generation of poststructuralist and postmodernist political and cultural theorists need not be taken to mean the wholesale rejection of such thought. If, as our authors show, subjects seeking to contest the limits of an increasingly narrow political reality are continually in the process of being constituted, our scholarly approaches to these concrete subjects and their diverse modes of subjectivity similarly need to be reconceived in order for us to identify the ways in which they are constructing sites of political alterity against the state and its hegemonic cultural formations.
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Late Jameson, or, After the Eternity of the Present
Frederic Jameson (born 1934) has long been described as the most important cultural critic writing today and the major theorist of postmodernity, particularly owing to his theorization of the link between contemporary capitalism and the cultural logic of postmodernism. This article confronts the criticism that Jameson clings to a theorization of the present that is unnecessarily pessimistic and totalizing, and reconsiders the value his most famous conceptual intervention has for us today. Argues that the later Jameson has shifted in his thought towards politics and the theorization of collective subjectivities, working towards a new diagnosis of the present. (Quotes from original text)
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