ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Man Booker Prize, Willful Blindness, High Culture
10 Mar 2016
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From hell: jack the ripper, lost girls. Watchmen: alternative timeline superheroes in the era of cold war. Describes everything in a given panel; eye for detail. Example: a turned over coffee cup in the corner. Every character from work of victorian fiction. Triumph of british fiction ; a masterpiece of the modern british novel a comic worthy of a booker prize . Material pre-history of graphic novel: illustrated novels, penny dreadfuls, boys" weeklies, comics. Throwback to pre-comic form: illustrated adventure stories relating to main narrative. Inviting us to consider the whole history of the comics. The literariness of the comic that they want us to consider. Reaction against assumptions regarding evolution of the comic form (from children"s lit. to mature form in 80s) Maturing into the graphic novel that can be read by adults. Blending of popular genres of science fiction, imperial romance, and gothic horror.
