ENGB38H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Art Spiegelman, Didacticism, The Graphic
12.2 March, Conclusion, and Exam Review
Exam Format
● 2 hours long - 3 sections:
○ Section 1 (30%): six key words to define (from a list of ten)
○ Section 2 (20%): ID section; choose one of the three passages provided
■ material first half of the course - everything after Persepolis
■ Identify the title, the author, the context of the passage within the narrative, and an idea
from the course the panel illustrates
■ Should be about a page long
○ Section 3 (50%): comparative essay - the last 3 comics of the course
■ Choose one of the two prompts to respond to; prompts are given in advance to the exam
■ Plan out your thesis in advance - have a more specific claim/argument that answers the
question in a way (focused)
■ Expected to have specific moments in mind to describe (you are not expected to cite or
directly quote)
● Key words - *needs more definition:
○ Diaspora:
■ a group of people displaced from their native land
■ the group is displaced not by choice, although it is sometimes voluntary
■ Refers to spreading of people and to the people already spread outside of native land
○ Closure:
■ Process of mind filling in blanks between panels - the filling in of time between the two
panels
■ Assumes work of art is a complete object
■ Idea from McCloud
○ Gutter:
■ Space in between panels
■ McCloud
○ Panel*
○ Postmodern*:
■ Art movement that happens after WWII (but not all art at this time follows this movement)
■ The point - to demonstrate the muddled way life is after WWII
○ Autographic:
■ autobiography in the comic form
○ Expressionism:
■ Art movement that takes the emotion felt and tries to dramatize it into the artwork
■ Focus on the state of the artist and the landscape
○ Historiographic metafiction:
■ Fictional piece of text that is based on history
■ Aware that it is fiction, and that history is not something we can know perfectly (because
we weren’t there)
■ Aware of the way history is written
■ Ex. Art Spiegelman talking about writing about Maus within the comic itself
○ Didactic literature (later in notes)
○ Bricolage:
■ One of the three aspects of postmodern
■ The mixing of styles; incorporation of other pieces of art
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