[Commlist] New book: The Rise of the Graphic Novel

Alexander Dunst, /The Rise of the Graphic Novel: Computational Criticism 
and the Evolution of Literary Value/ (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023)
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/literature/literary-theory/rise-graphic-novel-computational-criticism-and-evolution-literary-value?format=HB 
<https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/literature/literary-theory/rise-graphic-novel-computational-criticism-and-evolution-literary-value?format=HB>

Bringing digital humanities methods to the study of comics, this 
monograph traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection 
of popular and literary culture. Based on a representative corpus of 
over 250 graphic novels from the United States, Canada, and Great 
Britain, it shows how the genre has built on the visual style of comics 
while adopting selected features of the contemporary novel. This 
argument positions the graphic novel as a crucial case study for our 
understanding of twenty-first-century culture. More than simply a niche 
format, graphic novels demonstrate how contemporary literature reworks 
elements of genre narrative, reconfiguring rather than abolishing 
distinctions between high and low. The book also puts forward a new 
historical periodization for the graphic novel, centered on integration 
into the literary marketplace and leading to an explosive growth in page 
length and a diversification of aesthetic styles.

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