Karin Kukkonen

Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. * Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experience * Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject * Includes study activities, writing exercises, and essay topics throughout * Dedicated chapters cover popular sub-genres such as autobiography and literary adaptation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781118499924
• ISBN-10: 1118499921
• Artikelnr.: 38600091

Autorenporträt

Karin Kukkonen is Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of comics as a narrative form during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dr Kukkonen has published work on metaphors, metafiction, and multi-perspective storytelling in comics. Her recent monograph, Contemporary Comics Storytelling (2013) examines how the comics of recent years engage with the legacy of postmodernism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: How to Use This Book 1 What This Book
Holds 2 Working Definitions 4 1 What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics 7
Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms 7 Navigating the Comics Page 16
Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants 19 Comics Analysis - A
Basic Checklist 26 2 The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators 31
Showing and Telling 31 Story, Discourse, and Plot 34 The Narrator 39
Narration, Focalization, and Point of View 44 Narrative as Meaning-Making
48 Graphic Narrative - A Basic Checklist 49 3 Narrating Minds and Bodies:
Autobiographical Comics 55 Style and Subjectivity 55 Autographic Agents 57
Embodiment 60 Self-Reflexivity 61 Time, Story, and History 65 Alternative
Agendas and Authenticity 68 4 Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations 73
Transporting Stories 74 Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies 75
Fidelity in Adaptation 80 Literary Complexity 85 The Page Revisited 90 5
Comics and Their History 99 The Beginnings of Comics History 99 Precursors
in Emergent Mass Culture 102 Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) 103 The Comic
Book (1930-54) 106 Comics Censorship (1954) 110 Comics as Popular Culture
113 Breaking the Code 1: Pop Art and Underground Comix 117 Breaking the
Code 2: The British Invasion 118 6 The Study and Criticism of Comics 123
Resources for Studying Comics 123 Access to Comics Texts 123 Critical Work
on Comics 124 Critical Approaches to Comics 125 Comics Semiotics 126 Comics
Narratology 128 Cognitive Approaches to Comics 129 Historical and Auteurist
Approaches 131 Cultural Studies and Gender Studies 133 Psychoanalysis 134
How to Write Your Essay on Comics 139 The Crime Scene 142 The Witnesses 142
Making Your Case 144 End Credits 146 Conclusion: Comics as Literature 149
Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read 155 Glossary 167 Index 179

Rezensionen

"A much-needed textbook that provides an analytical toolkit to bring to bear on the complexities of comics as narrative art and cultural practice. It is both rigorous and reader-friendly: the case-study approach encourages an active application of the conceptual framework that is carefully built up. This book is a real asset for all students of comics." --Ann Miller, University of Leicester

"Karin Kukkonen's Studying Comics provides the reader with the tools necessary to transform themselves quickly from a comics reader to a comics scholar, capable of engaging graphic narratives from a broad range of approaches and ready to engage in this dynamic and emerging field of study. This is a smart introduction that takes both its readers and its comics very seriously indeed, while always remaining lively and accessible." --Jared Gardner, Ohio State University