All Outputs (4)

Chester Brown (2024)
Book
Køhlert, F. B. (in press). Chester Brown. University Press of Mississippi

Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown’s life and career, highlighting his role in th... Read More about Chester Brown.

Chicago: A Literary History (2021)
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Køhlert, F. B. (Ed.). (2021). Chicago: A Literary History. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763738

Chicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation's goods and a crossroads for i... Read More about Chicago: A Literary History.

Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics (2019)
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Køhlert, F. B. (2019). Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre’s potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially... Read More about Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics.

The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953 (2011)
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Køhlert, F. B. (2011). The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953. Museum Tusculanum Press

The Chicago Literary Experience is a concise literary history of the city of Chicago. Taking as its thematic starting point the city's famous World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the book provides an account of the city's rapid and in many ways unpr... Read More about The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953.