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Orbán, Katalin. "A Language of Scratches and Stitches: The Graphic Novel between Hyperreading and Print." Critical Inquiry 40. (2014): 169–81. Added by: joachim (6/25/14, 8:24 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1086/677340 BibTeX citation key: Orbn2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "In the Shadow of No Towers", "Stitches", Materiality, Reception, Small. David, Spiegelman. Art, USA Creators: Orbán Collection: Critical Inquiry |
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| Attachments | URLs https://www.academ ... rreading_and_Print |
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When viewed in a broad cultural-historical context, the increasing prominence of graphic narrative in mainstream and even canonical culture—particularly through the invention and development of the graphic novel genre—pinpoints the intersection of two often-related processes. One is the increasing prevalence of hyperreading and hyperattention, and the other is a move away from stable material forms to increasingly volatile and adaptable digital, virtual forms. While these two processes often go hand in hand, there seems to be a tension between the hyperreading encouraged by the multimodality of graphic narrative (its use of different systems of signification) and its enduring reliance on the printed book. Although digital comics (born digital or migrated from print) confirm the broader technocultural trend in which nonlinearity, multitasking, and digital environments are seen as mutually conducive, web comics are just as often a stepping stone to print publication, and plenty of graphic narratives call for a print-based hyperreading without moving to screen reading and surfing. After establishing that this is a significant cultural constellation both in the aesthetic and publishing paradigms, I will examine how two works—Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and David Small’s Stitches—utilize this special position to explore a new sense of materiality that belongs neither to a nostalgic dependence on predigital materiality nor to hyperreading in computer environments.
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