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Busi Rizzi, Giorgio. "Portrait of the Artist as a Nostalgic: Seth’s It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken." Comics Memory. Archives and Styles. Eds. Maaheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. New York [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 15–36. Added by: Okwuchi Mba (9/4/18, 11:00 AM) Last edited by: joachim (9/4/18, 5:53 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91746-7_2 BibTeX citation key: BusiRizzi2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken", Canada, Memoria, Metaisierung, Seth Creators: Ahmed, Busi Rizzi, Crucifix Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.]) Collection: Comics Memory. Archives and Styles |
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Nostalgia is a recurrent word in both mainstream and academic discourses about comics. The contours and specific features of the allure of nostalgia, however, often remain undefined: What do we mean, exactly, when we say a graphic novel is nostalgic? By performing a close reading of Seth’s It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (1996), my contribution aims to build a critical framework that explores different levels (structure, motifs, and style), allowing a better understanding of what constitutes the nostalgic aura of a given text through taking into account structural characteristics, thematic elements, and stylistic features.
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