ENG 316 — Comics and Graphic Narrative
In this course examines the unique syntax, grammar and conventions of this literary art form. It traces graphic narrative’s history from the 19th century, as a working-class commodity in print newspapers, to the mid-20th Century, when it reconfigured itself as a medium of rebellion and mode of autobiography, up to today. Through regular writing assignments, students will critically engage with the art form and recent scholarship, developing their own arguments about how certain comics communicate specific subjectivities.