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Selections by artists who influenced Clowes and a detailed chronology of his work round out the collection, and extensive annotations shed light on the cartoonist's sources and cultural references. Perfect for the college literature\/graphic narrative classroom.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572761108753,"sku":"GOR008398671","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50582374482193,"sku":"CIN1606995898G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1606995898.jpg?v=1776766942"},{"product_id":"50-essential-guitar-lessons-book-ken-parille-9781423442707","title":"50 Essential Guitar Lessons","description":"(Guitar Educational). This book\/CD pack contains 50 must-know lessons for all guitarists, beginner to pro. 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His serialized Eightball comics, collected in such books as David Boring, Ice Haven, and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, helped to set the standards of sophistication and complexity for the medium. The screenplay for Ghost World, which Clowes co-adapted (with Terry Zwigoff) from his graphic novel of the same name, was nominated for an Academy Award. Since his early, edgy Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, Clowes has developed along with the medium, from a satirical and sometimes vituperative surrealist to an unmatched observer of psychological and social subtleties. In this collection of interviews reaching from 1988 to 2009, the cartoonist discusses his earliest experiences reading superhero comics, his time at the Pratt Institute, his groundbreaking comics career, and his screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential. Several of these pieces are drawn from rare small-press or self-published zines, including Clowes's first published interview. 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While most  studies of nineteenth-century boyhood have focused on post-Civil War  male novelists, Parille explores a broader archive of writings by male  and female authors, extending from 1830-1885.      Boys at Home offers a series of arguments about five  pedagogical modes: play-adventure, corporal punishment, sympathy, shame,  and reading. The first chapter demonstrates that, rather than  encouraging boys to escape the bonds of domesticity, scenes of play in  boys' novels reproduce values associated with the home. Chapter 2 argues  that debates about corporal punishment are crucial sources for the  culture's ideas about gender difference and pedagogical practice. In  chapter 3, \"\"The Medicine of Sympathy,\"\" Parille examines the affective  nature of mother-daughter and mother-son bonds, emphasizing the special  difficulties that \"\"boy-nature\"\" posed for women. The fourth chapter uses  boys' conduct literature and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women -the  preeminent chronicle of girlhood in the century -to investigate not  only Alcott's fictional representations of shame-centered discipline but  also pervasive cultural narratives about what it means to \"\"be a man.\"\"  Focusing on works by Lydia Sigourney and Francis Forrester, the final  chapter considers arguments about the effects that fictional,  historical, and biographical narratives had on a boy's sense of himself  and his masculinity.      Boys at Home is an important contribution to the emerging field of  masculinity studies. 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