Reading Autobiographical Comics : : a Framework for Educational Settings.

• Superior document: Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies ; v.64
• Author: Oppolzer, Markus.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 pages)

This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach to autobiographical comics.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Copyright information -- Copyright information -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Reader-Response Criticism -- 1.1 Reading as a Journey -- 1.2 Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory -- 1.3 Frames -- 1.4 Iser's Model of Meaning-Making -- 1.5 The Overdetermination of Literary Texts -- 2 Transaction in Educational Settings -- 2.1 The Ease of Reading -- 2.2 The Teacher of Literature as a Facilitator -- 2.3 Reading in Stages -- Stage 1: Framing -- Stage 2: Reading -- Stage 3: Think-Tank -- Stage 4: Lockstep -- Stage 5: Rereading -- Stage 6: Conclusions -- Stage 7: Closure -- 2.4 Learner Texts &amp -- Activities -- 3 Cognitive (Literary) Studies -- 3.1 The Return of the Reader -- 3.2 Mental Models -- 3.3 Emotions &amp -- Empathy -- 3.3.1 The Feeling of What Happens -- 3.3.2 Types of Reading-Related Feelings -- 3.3.3 Transportation -- 3.3.4 Empathy -- 3.4 Embodied Cognition &amp -- Enactivism -- 3.5 Conceptual Metaphors &amp -- Blending -- 3.5.1 Basic Principles -- 3.5.2 Metaphors -- 3.5.3 Metonymies -- 3.5.4 Blending -- 3.6 Blending &amp -- Literary Studies -- 4 Cognitive Approaches to Comics -- 4.1 Synopsis -- 4.2 Definitions -- 4.3 Cartooning -- 4.4 An Art of Tensions -- 4.4.1 Words vs. Images -- 4.4.2 Image vs. Series/Sequence -- 4.4.3 Sequence vs. Page -- 4.4.4 Experience vs. Object -- 4.5 A Cognitive Reading of Craig Thompson's Blankets (Chapter I) -- 5 Autobiographical Comics -- 5.1 The Conceptual Ambiguity of Autobiography -- 5.1.1 A Struggle with Definitions -- 5.1.2 A Brief History of Autographics -- 5.1.3 Autographical Challenges to Autobiographical Genre Theory -- 5.2 Life Writing &amp -- Blending -- 5.2.1 The Autobiographical Act as Blending -- 5.2.2 Developing Autobiographical Reasoning -- 5.2.3 Autobiographical Memory -- 5.2.4 Photographic Evidence -- 5.3 Authenticity &amp -- Emotional Truth.

5.4 Autobiographical Selves -- 5.5 Embodiment &amp -- Enaction -- 5.6 Types of Autobiographical Comics -- Conclusion -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography.