Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other forms and genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and interpret texts. By bringing literary theory to bear on graphic narrative and balancing…mehr
Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other forms and genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and interpret texts. By bringing literary theory to bear on graphic narrative and balancing readings of individual texts with larger ideas about comics scholarship as a whole, this work expands our understanding of the form itself and its engagement with political culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jake Jakaitis is the director of undergraduate studies in English at Indiana State University, where he teaches literary theory and criticism, contemporary American literature, multicultural American literature, and science fiction. He lives in Terre Haute. James F. Wurtz is an associate professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches 19th and 20th century British and Irish writing, graphic narrative, and literary theory and criticism.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Reading Crossover JAKE JAKAITIS and JAMES F. WURTZ PART I: WAYS OF READING 1. Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures with Dark Horse Comics JOHN JOSEPH HESS 2. The Comic Modernism of George Herriman DANIEL STEIN 3. Fantastic Alterities and The Sandman JULIA ROUND 4. Thirty-Two Floors of Disruption: Time and Space in Alan Moore's "How Things Work Out" RIKKE PLATZ CORTSEN PART II: READING ETHNICITY 5. Picturing Books: Southern Print Culture in Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby DAVID BORDELON 6. Iconoclastic Readings and Self-Reflexive Rebellions in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis PAMELA J. RADER 7. Drawing the Trauma of Race: Choices and Crises of Representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus LUMINITA DRAGULESCU 8. Mezclando (Mixing) the "Facts" and the Power of the Image in Latino USA ELLEN M. GIL-GÓMEZ PART III: READING THE HERO 9. "3X2(9YZ)4A": Stasis and Speed in Contemporary Superhero Comics MARTYN PEDLER 10. My Wonder Woman: The "New Wonder Woman," Gloria Steinem, and the Appropriation of Comic Book Iconography ANDREW J. FRIEDENTHAL 11. Paneling Rage: The Loss of Deliberate Sequence MICHAEL P. MILLINGTON About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction: Reading Crossover JAKE JAKAITIS and JAMES F. WURTZ PART I: WAYS OF READING 1. Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures with Dark Horse Comics JOHN JOSEPH HESS 2. The Comic Modernism of George Herriman DANIEL STEIN 3. Fantastic Alterities and The Sandman JULIA ROUND 4. Thirty-Two Floors of Disruption: Time and Space in Alan Moore's "How Things Work Out" RIKKE PLATZ CORTSEN PART II: READING ETHNICITY 5. Picturing Books: Southern Print Culture in Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby DAVID BORDELON 6. Iconoclastic Readings and Self-Reflexive Rebellions in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis PAMELA J. RADER 7. Drawing the Trauma of Race: Choices and Crises of Representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus LUMINITA DRAGULESCU 8. Mezclando (Mixing) the "Facts" and the Power of the Image in Latino USA ELLEN M. GIL-GÓMEZ PART III: READING THE HERO 9. "3X2(9YZ)4A": Stasis and Speed in Contemporary Superhero Comics MARTYN PEDLER 10. My Wonder Woman: The "New Wonder Woman," Gloria Steinem, and the Appropriation of Comic Book Iconography ANDREW J. FRIEDENTHAL 11. Paneling Rage: The Loss of Deliberate Sequence MICHAEL P. MILLINGTON About the Contributors Index
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