This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature

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Continuum, 2007 - Comic books, strips, etc - 237 pages
By demonstrating the ways in which comic books (and graphic novels) both reflect upon, and expand the boundaries of literature, Rocco Versaci demonstrates that comics have earned the right to be taken just as seriously as any other literary form.

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Contents

Creating a Special Reality
34
ReMaustering the Past
81
The New Journalism Revisited
109
Copyright

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Rocco Versaci, PhD is Professor of English at Paolmar Community College in San Marcos, California, where he developed what is now one of the department's most popular classes: English 290 - Comic Books as Literature.

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