Comp Lit, Revisited: A Brief Analysis of ‘Joker’ and ‘The Dark Knight’

Erica Zendell
Nov 1 · 10 min read

I’ve been out of the broader academic realm for over three years (when I graduated from business school) and out of the literary academic realm for over 7 years (when I left college with a degree in comparative literature, which was eminently unemployable out of undergrad but unexpectedly useful in my longer-term career). But I haven’t quite given up being a student of media and storytelling, and I have been hungry to dive into an exploration of different themes, genres, and characters and analyze something more profound and esoteric…

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Erica Zendell

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Grab your camera, your pen, and whatever you can to remember this moment. Product manager. MBA ’16 @mitsloan. Host of @bizobapodcast. Tweets @ezendell

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