Die a Graphic Death: Revisiting the Death of Genre with Graphic Novels, or "Why won't you just die already?"

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Carter, James Bucky

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Graphic novels

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Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

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Fall 2008

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ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 36, Issue 1, Fall 2008, pp 15-25

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eng

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While Eisner's words appeared a good fifteen years before The New London Group and Bill Copes and Mary Kalantzis were bringing the idea of visual and multimodal literacies to the English teacher's consciousness, Eisner and others actually involved in the creation of visual texts were making strong intellectual arguments that were only being heard by those already interested in their chosen form of expression. Based on definitions of classification of genre, form, and medium from the likes of Beckson and Ganz, Dean, McCloud, and Eisner, and my experience as a teacher and teacher educator, my basic hypothesis is that educators with a literary background discover the graphic novel or comics and, like Eisner, see a consistency of formal elements from page to page or from one book to the next but take the Beckson and Ganz or Dean approach, mistaking the formal style of representation as elements of genre, not as elements of a larger form, or of a grammar or language as Eisner suggests. [...]return to our stark comic page and ask another student to make one character a female in a flowing dress, the other a man in a ripped shirt (see Figure 5). [...]I have found that there is still some resistance to considering someone who studies sequential art a true scholar, and perhaps this also contributes to teachers favoring traditional literary thoughts on genre, reincarnating the beast even as well-informed others have sought to slay it Counterpoint Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey Though they let their contributors take center stage in Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills (2008), Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey know a little something about graphic novels and pedagogy themselves.

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Die a Graphic Death: Revisiting the Death of Genre with Graphic Novels, or "Why won't you just die already?"

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