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Issue 2.5 Previous Issues

Comics and Page Bleeds

Harriet Earle October 9, 2013 1 Comment 300 close reading comics scholarship Franco-Belgian Frank Miller G B Tran Joe Sacco Manga Manhwa page bleeds Palestine panels Scott McCloud splash page textual analysis The Fixer Vietnamerica visual style western comics art

We are used to seeing comics as a succession of neatly ordered panels, each containing images and words that combine together to tell a story. In my last paper for Alluvium, ‘Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics,’ (Alluvium Vol. 2, No. 1…

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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum

Sarah Olive January 12, 2013 1 Comment close reading cultural value English classroom English curriculum F. R. Leavis Henley Review of Cultural Education ideology literary canon literary value National Curriculum for English practical criticism Q. D. Leavis Scrutiny Shakespeare The Great Tradition

Cultural criticism and cultural histories of the development of English as a subject place special emphasis on the role of intellectuals, education and national identity…

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