text & image: residents of a dysfunctional home

ENGLISH 87N PRESENTATION

SHUQIAO SONG3/4/2009

Residents of a dys(FUN)ctional HOME: Text & Image

ALISON BECHDEL

TEXT

IMAGE

TEXT IMAGE

TEXT & IMAGE

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TEXT ? IMAGE

1.TEXT can fail…

1.TEXT can fail…

…but is necessary.

2.IMAGES deceive…

2.IMAGES deceive…

…but are necessary.

TEXT ? IMAGE

1.

1.TEXT can fail…

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1.TEXT can fail…

1.TEXT can fail…

…but is necessary.

2.

2.IMAGES deceive…

2.IMAGES deceive…

2.IMAGES deceive…

…but are necessary.

TEXT ? IMAGE

“Daedalus, too, was indifferent to the human cost of his projects. He blithely betrayed the king, for example, when the queen asked him to build her a cow disguise so she could seduce the white bull. Indeed the result of that scheme—a half-bull, half-man monster—inspired Daedalus’s greatest creation yet. He hid the minotaur in the labyrinth—a maze of passages and rooms opening endlessly into one another…and from which, as stray youths and maidens discovered to their peril…escape was impossible. Then there are those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?” (Bechdel 11-12)

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TEXT IMAGE

IMAGE TEXT

SUB-TEXT SUB-IMAGE

Works Cited

Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Chabani, Karim. “Double Trajectories: Crossing Lines in Fun Home.” GRAAT 1 March (2007): 1-14. Chute, Hillary. “An Interview with Alison Bechdel.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 52.4 (2006): 1004-1013. Project Muse. 30 Jan. 2009. Gardner, Jared. “Autography’s Biography, 1972-2007.” Biography 31.1 (Winter 2008). Project Muse. 11 Feb. 2009.

Grossman, Lev & Richard Lacayo. “10 Best Books.” Dec. 17th 2006. TIME. 29 Jan. 2009 <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570801,00.html>.