From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels : : Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative / / ed. by Daniel Stein, Jan-Noël Thon.

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative – realized in various different formats, including comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels – as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. The contributions assembled...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels --
PART I. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE AND NARRATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS --
Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds --
Space, Time, and Causality in Graphic Narratives: An Embodied Approach --
Who’s Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative --
Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives --
PART II. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE BEYOND THE ‘SINGLE WORK’ --
Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction --
Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext --
Intermediality, Transmediality, and Graphic Narrative --
Comics in the Intersecting Histories of the Window, the Frame, and the Panel --
PART III. GENRE AND FORMAT HISTORIES OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVE --
A History of the Narrative Comic Strip --
Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure --
Un/Taming the Beast, or Graphic Novels (Re)Considered --
Archival, Ephemeral, and Residual: The Functions of Early Comics in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers --
PART IV. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ACROSS CULTURES --
Anglo-American Graphic Narrative --
European Graphic Narratives: Toward a Cultural and Mediological History --
Ghostly: ‘Asian Graphic Narratives,’ Nonnonba, and Manga --
Graphic Narrative as World Literature --
Index (Persons) --
Index (Works)
Summary:This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative – realized in various different formats, including comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels – as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. The contributions assembled in this volume test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work,’ consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110282023
9783110238570
9783110238464
9783110637854
9783110317350
9783110317268
9783110317251
ISSN:1612-8427 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110282023
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Daniel Stein, Jan-Noël Thon.