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Chute, Hillary. "Ragtime, Kavalier & Clay and the Framing of Comics." Modern Fiction Studies 54. (2008): 268–301. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.0024
BibTeX citation key: Chute2008a
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Keywords: "Ragtime", Chabon. Michael, Comics in literature, Doctorow. E.L., Literature, USA
Creators: Chute
Collection: Modern Fiction Studies
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Abstract
This essay explores the connection between contemporary fiction and contemporary graphic narrative by examining how two novels—E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1975) and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)—share the concerns (both formal and thematic) of graphic narrative: namely, an abiding interest in the narrativization of history. Both novels, works of historical fiction that are about the rise of popular, visual media in the twentieth-century, suggest the political value of popular forms that are innovative and yet widely accessible, and thus give us a way to think about the import and invention of graphic narrative.
  
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