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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2007.0001 BibTeX citation key: Bredehoft2006 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Jimmy Corrigan", Narratology, USA, Ware. Chris Creators: Bredehoft Collection: Modern Fiction Studies |
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Focusing on the unique architecture of comics, in which panels are both sequenced linearly and meaningfully juxtaposed on a two-dimensional page, this essay explores Chris Ware’s use of two- and three-dimensional narrative strategies to complicate linear understandings of narrative structure. In Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware employs such multidimensional narrative strategies to effectively thematize the novel’s engagement with issues of narrative time, circularity, and continuity, as well as to call into question the very notion of a “narrative line”.
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