![]() ![]() The article then reads the overt plot and analyzes the narrator’s voice to assess distances between implied reader/author, narrator, and characters, which previous criticism has established. The article first discusses the critical background of 300, assesses style-a basic element of covert progression-in comics, and introduces a tool of cultural-semantic analysis necessary to understand 300. In addition, reading 300 for its covert progression also contributes to reassessing a work surrounded by controversies over its quality and ideological bias. By analyzing Frank Miller’s 300, this article extends covert progression to comics, a medium in which language and images crucially interact. Readings of covert progression have expanded the study of rhetorical criticism but usually limit themselves to analyzing short stories. ![]()
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