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Date(s) - 5 Dec 2011
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
Van Pelt Library
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The last session of the Seminar in the History of Material Texts of the semester.
Lauren Shohet, Professor of English at Villanova University, will give a presentation on “Re-mediations of Graphics, Books, and Genres: How Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Bechdel’s Fun Home Think about New Media.”
We will meet at 5:15 in the Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference room, which is located on the second floor of Van Pelt Library, diagonally across from the elevator bank.
Shohet writes:
Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &Clay (2000) represents, within a novel, the birth of the graphic novel. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) represents novels within a graphic memoir. What purchase can we gain on relationships of emergent media forms to inherited ones by examining chiastically the imagined “comic books” and “graphic novel” of Kavalier & Clay and the “books” represented in the frames of Fun Home? I suggest we look at these millenial cross-media representations as a mode of ekphrasis, suggesting ways that this analysis might advance current conversations about relationships of narrative and medium, of medium and form, of de-mediation and re-mediation. I also explore what light might be shed by the far-from-current conversations about those relationships undertaken in the late sixteenth-century watershed of manuscript and print culture, in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
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Lauren Shohet is the Luckow Family Professor of English at Villanova University, and the author of Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century (OUP 2010).