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  • 4 - Graphic Fiction

  • from Part I - Forms
  • Edited by Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 79-99

  • Summary

    Histories of dissolving high/low culture divides inform Katalin Orbán’s discussion of contemporary graphic fiction, as she posits the critical and popular emergence of long-form, verbal-visual works that push narrative conventions in new directions, such as spatial-temporal experiments (e.g., by Chris Ware and Richard McGuire), the use of visual metaphors and other conventionally linguistic literary devices, and genre blurring distinctive to the drawn medium.

  • 11 - Convergence

  • from Part III - Themes
  • Edited by Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 215-233

  • Summary

    Mark Goble uses the concept of convergence to explore the implications of formal and temporal compression, economy, and slowness in an age of unprecedented expansion and speedup. Richard McGuire’s Here presents an extreme example of spatial restriction and temporal expansion, while novels by Ruth Ozeki, Richard Powers, and William Gibson juxtapose ecological, scientific, technological, and theological timespans to human ones in ways that echo postmodern and science fiction precursors, but with very different aims and warnings in mind for denizens of the Anthropocene.