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.