Book Review: Heroic Ballads of Servia

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Book Review

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Book Review

Strategies of Rebellion in the Heroic Age of the American Comic Book

This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu’s idea of heroic ages in art and the American comic book. Bourdieu characterized the French literary field in the mid nineteenth century as a heroic age. During this age writers and critics generated criteria of judgment that were autonomous from market forces and elite patronage. I argue that in the 1970s a similar heroic age began in American comic books...