Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary texts:

  • Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud (Harper 1993)
  • The Complete Maus (I+II), Art Spiegelman (combined edition, Penguin 2003)
  • Palestine, Joe Sacco (Jonathan Cape 2003)
  • Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman and David Polonsky
  • The Complete Persepolis (I+II), Marjane Satrapi (combined edition, Pantheon 2007)
  • Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books 2007)

Secondary literature:

  • “Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative,” Hilary Chute (journal article)
  • “Irony and Self-Reflexivity in Autobiographical Comics,” Charles Hatfield (book chapter)
  • “Chapter 3” from Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (book chapter)
  • “Autographics: The Seeing ‘I’ of the Comics,” Gillian Whitlock (journal article)
  • "The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of Memoir," Nancy Miller (journal article)
  • “Animating an Archive: Repetition and Regeneration in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Hilary Chute (book chapter)
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Published May 22, 2015 10:08 AM