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Comics and language : reimagining critical discourse on the form /
It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? This book challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? This book challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar" and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that the author argues will better serve the field by offering a consistent means for communicating critical theory in the scholarship. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621039556 1621039552 9781617038051 1617038059 |