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Lydenberg, Robin. "Reading Lessons in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic." College Literature 44. (2017): 133–65. 
Added by: joachim (4/19/23, 6:19 PM)   
Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
BibTeX citation key: Lydenberg2017
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Keywords: "Fun Home", Autobiography, Bechdel. Alison, Materiality, Metaisierung, USA
Creators: Lydenberg
Collection: College Literature
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Attachments   URLs   https://www.jstor.org/stable/44507177
Abstract
Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, has been widely recognized for its literary sophistication. Themes familiar in the memoir genre—the author's intellectual and sexual development and her relationship with her father—are invariably filtered through her adventures in reading. This essay presents the different modes of reading Alison's encounters: reading for identification, reading for parallels and symbolic meanings, reading for the sensual pleasure of language. Bechdel arrives ultimately at her own understanding of reading as an ongoing struggle. Bechdel teaches her readers to be attentive, in particular, to the often-overlooked materiality of reading: the book as object and the page in its spatial layout, language as sensuous sound and rhythm, and the experience of both writers and readers as embodied participants in the process.
  
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