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From comic strips to graphic novels : contributions to the theory and history of graphic narrative /

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of narrative beyond traditional literary texts. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, its vario...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stein, Daniel, Thon, Jan-Noël
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2013.
Colección:Narratologia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: from comic strips to graphic novels
  • Part I. Graphic narrative and narratological concepts. Zooming in and out: panels, frames, sequences, and the building of graphic storyworlds ; Space, time, and causality in graphic narratives: an embodied approach ; Who's telling the tale? Authors and narrators in graphic narrative ; Subjectivity and style in graphic narratives
  • Part II. Graphic narrative beyond the 'single work'. Graphic memoir: neither fact nor fiction ; Superhero comics and the authorizing functions of the comic book paratext ; Intermediality, transmediality, and graphic narrative ; Comics in the intersecting histories of the window, the frame, and the panel
  • Part III. Genre and format histories of graphic narrative. A history of the narrative comic strip ; Narration in the Flemish dual publication system: the crossover genre of the humoristic adventure ; Un/taming the beast, or graphic novels (re)considered ; Archival, ephemeral, and residual: the functions of early comics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers
  • Part IV. Graphic narrative across cultures. Anglo-American graphic narrative ; European graphic narratives: toward a cultural and mediological history ; Ghostly: 'Asian graphic narratives, ' nonnonba, and manga ; Graphic narrative as world literature
  • Index (Persons)
  • Index (Works).