{"product_id":"reading-lessons-in-seeing-michael-a-chaney-9781496818508","title":"Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel","description":"Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them. Theoretically eclectic, this study attends to the lessons taught by both the form and content of today's most celebrated graphic novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChaney analyzes the embedded lessons in comics and graphic novels through the form's central tropes: the iconic child storyteller and the inherent childishness of comics in American culture; the use of mirrors and masks as ciphers of the unconscious; embedded puzzles and games in otherwise story-driven comic narratives; and the form's self-reflexive propensity for showing its work. Comics reveal the labor that goes into producing them, embedding lessons on how to read the \"work\" as a whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout, Chaney draws from a range of theoretical insights from psychoanalysis and semiotics to theories of reception and production from film studies, art history, and media studies. Some of the major texts examined include Marjane Satrapi's \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e; Chris Ware's \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e; Joe Sacco's \u003ci\u003ePalestine\u003c\/i\u003e; David B.'s \u003ci\u003eEpileptic\u003c\/i\u003e; Kyle Baker's \u003ci\u003eNat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e; and many more. As Chaney's examples show, graphic novels teach us even as they create meaning in their infinite relay between words and pictures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael a. Chaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496818504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496818508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Michael a. Chaney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985885167871,"sku":"9781496818508","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e0f6001-89bb-4875-ab7d-a5e157684c86.jpg?v=1683280114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-lessons-in-seeing-michael-a-chaney-9781496818508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}