This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as LiteratureBy 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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Page 95
... photographs achieve a higher level of expressiveness by " turning . . . discontinuity to advantage " ( 128 ) , whereby a viewer's piecing together the incomplete truth of a photograph becomes a marvelously expressive exercise . But such ...
... photographs achieve a higher level of expressiveness by " turning . . . discontinuity to advantage " ( 128 ) , whereby a viewer's piecing together the incomplete truth of a photograph becomes a marvelously expressive exercise . But such ...
Page 96
... photographs become an evocative , expressive entry into Holocaust history and confirm many of Hirsch's contentions about photography . But where Hirsch's argument runs into a problem is in photo- graphs of atrocity . With such images ...
... photographs become an evocative , expressive entry into Holocaust history and confirm many of Hirsch's contentions about photography . But where Hirsch's argument runs into a problem is in photo- graphs of atrocity . With such images ...
Page 98
... photographs of the atrocities of the Holocaust are paradoxical ; they are vital pieces of history that at the same time have the power to silence historical inquiry . This silence stems from the ability of photographs to distort the ...
... photographs of the atrocities of the Holocaust are paradoxical ; they are vital pieces of history that at the same time have the power to silence historical inquiry . This silence stems from the ability of photographs to distort the ...
Contents
Creating a Special Reality | 34 |
ReMaustering the Past | 81 |
The New Journalism Revisited | 109 |
Copyright | |
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