Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. London: Penguin, 2003. Week 10 The Graphic Novel (hero and anti-hero) Moore, Allan. Watchmen. New York: DC Comics, 1986. Week 11 Student Seminar Presentations & Discussion Week 12 Student Seminar Presentations & Discussion Term paper consultations Week 13 Student Seminar Presentations & Discussion Term paper consultations Week 14 Recapitulation and Review Academic Honesty You are expected to do your own work. Dishonesty in fulfilling any assignment undermines the learning process and the integrity of your college degree. Engaging in dishonest or unethical behavior is forbidden and will result in disciplinary action, specifically a failing grade on the assignment with no opportunity for resubmission. A second infraction will result in an F for the course and a report to College officials. Examples of prohibited behavior are: Cheating – an act of deception by which a student misleadingly demonstrates that s/he has mastered information on an academic exercise. Examples include: Copying or allowing another to copy a test, quiz, paper, or project Submitting a paper or major portions of a paper that has been previously submitted for another class without permission of the current instructor Turning in written assignments that are not your own work (including homework) Plagiarism – the act of representing the work of another as one’s own without giving credit. Failing to give credit for ideas and material taken from others Representing another’s artistic or scholarly work as one’s own Fabrication – the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive To comply with the University’s policy, the term essay and response paper must be submitted to VeriGuide. Resources
Primary Texts Eisner, Will. (2005) A Contract with God Trilogy. New York: W. W. Norton. Moore, Allan. (1986) Watchmen. New York: DC Comics. Spiegelman, Art. (2003) The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. London: Penguin. Wilde, Oscar. (2006) The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: W. W. Norton. Some e-text links and some texts uploaded to ILN as PDF files. Supplementary Texts Cartmell, Deborah and Imelda Whelehan. (2010) Screen Adaptation. Impure Cinema. New York: Palgrave. ---, et al. eds. (2000) Classics in Film and Fiction. London: Pluto. Derrida, Jacques. (1987) Truth in Painting. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Duncan, Randy and Matthew J. Smith. (2009) The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture. New York: Continuum. Eisner, Will. (1990) Comics and Sequential Art. New York: W. W. Norton. Flaxman, Rhoda. (1987) Victorian Word Painting and Narrative. Toward the Blending of Genre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Howells, Richard and Joaquim Negreiros. (2012) Visual Culture. Cambridge: Polity. Levy, Ellen.(2011) Criminal Ingenuity. Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts. New York: Oxford University Press. Louie, Kam. Hong Kong Culture. Word and Image. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Miller, Hillis M. (1994) Illustration. Essays in Art and Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. ed. (2009) An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Routledge. ---, ed. (2012) The Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge. Mitchell, W. J. T. (1995) Picture Theory. Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Rabb, Jane M. ed. (1995) Literature and Photography. Interactions 1840-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.