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Going Graphic: Understanding What Graphic Novels Are -- And Aren't -- Can Help Teachers Make The Best Use Of This Literary Form, James Carter
James B Carter
Best practice information for considering graphic novels in the k-12 classroom
Die A Graphic Death:" Revisiting The Death Of Genre With Graphic Novels, James Carter
Die A Graphic Death:" Revisiting The Death Of Genre With Graphic Novels, James Carter
James B Carter
A revisitation of the concept of genre as it applies to graphica. I argue, as have others, that comics is a medium or art form rather than a genre. But, I also illustrate the concept for rhetoric's sake.
Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter
Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter
James B Carter
I argue for the transformative potential of graphic novels in the English classroom.
Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter
Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter
James B Carter
Notions of WJT Mitchell's imagetext are explored as they are revealed in Mark Haddon's young adult novel *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*. Christopher Boone's particular way of reading the world illuminates imagetext relationships.
Princes, Beasts, Or Royal Pains: Men And Masculinity In The Revisionist Fairy Tales Of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Carter
Princes, Beasts, Or Royal Pains: Men And Masculinity In The Revisionist Fairy Tales Of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Carter
James B Carter
An examination of the roles men fulfill in select short stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter
Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter
James B Carter
Comics, especially the works of Alan Moore, are examined as meeting the goals of modernist artists and writers due to their combination of image and text, succeedeing where neither form of expression could independently of one another.
Return To English, Rowan Cahill
Return To English, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Autobiographical: A burnt-out teacher gives teaching away after fifteen years in the classroom to pursue a personal agenda--writing, income generation independent of the classroom, and rediscovering life. But after three years he returned to teaching. The article explores why he left, and why he returned.