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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2023
      20 July 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009182942
      9781009182935
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009182942
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 256 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives
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    Bringing digital humanities methods to the study of comics, this monograph traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture. Based on a representative corpus of over 250 graphic novels from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, it shows how the genre has built on the visual style of comics while adopting selected features of the contemporary novel. This argument positions the graphic novel as a crucial case study for our understanding of twenty-first-century culture. More than simply a niche format, graphic novels demonstrate how contemporary literature reworks elements of genre narrative, reconfiguring rather than abolishing distinctions between high and low. The book also puts forward a new historical periodization for the graphic novel, centered on integration into the literary marketplace and leading to an explosive growth in page length and a diversification of aesthetic styles.

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