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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Spiegelman"”.
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Adler, Asterios, & Maus
… by David Mazzuchelli and <em>Maus</em> by Art Spiegelman- how these ideas can be used to understand ourselves. It intensely zeroes in on specific moments of visual language shift. Some of these change range from simple elements like color or line weight or more complex elements like visual …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
… Kentridge, Dana Schutz, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman. According to Morris, relating to public history through the use of a private lexicon provides the work a germinative property which enables it to outlive the time in which it was created. Unbound aims to obtain this very same effect.
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"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
… No Towers to interrogate the ways in which Art Spiegelman explicitly addresses not only the issues he grappled with as a New Yorker during and after 9/11, but the complex relations of representation that arose from the event. Chapter 5 I examine how subversion works when a hypermedium is further …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
… Holocaust. Works from the 1980s and 1990s by Art Spiegelman and Jane Yolen form the basis of my third chapter, departing from strict postwar traditions of factual life-writing for young people and literalizing the figurative to achieve a new kind of authenticity that was separate from and in many …
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… Through foreclosure and comics strategies, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry and Randall Kenan reveal the novel form as a problematic but strong container for violation which can through foreclosure focus the text inward and backward---on genealogy or detection. Forward-looking prophecy and the …
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UNDERSTANDING THE RAL GTPASES: THE REGULATION BY PROTEIN LYSINE FATTY ACYLATION, SIRT2, AND INTERACTING PROTEINS
The RAS superfamily of small GTPases are molecular switches that control a wide range of cellular processes. Detailed understanding of these small GTPases is important for elucidating cell signaling mechanisms and identifying new disease treatment strategies. My thesis is centered on understanding …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… four and five, I examine the works of Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore, who all, in 1986-87, published works that established the graphic novel in the public consciousness as a viable sales format. Finally, in chapter six and my coda, I take up the works of Alison Bechdel, Chris …
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Truth Games: Fact, Fiction, and Performance in British Autobiographical Comics
… focussed on three North American creators: Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar, and Jack Jackson. More recently, scholars have increased the global scope of this field of research with books such as Elisabeth El Refaie’s Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures (2012) and Michael A. Chaney’s …
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… Holocaust Literature: Elie Wiesel’s Night, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the way in which each of these texts contributes to collective Holocaust memory and traumatic literature: as a memoir, graphic novel, and work of fiction, respectively. The paper …