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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baetens, Jan,; Berndt, Jaqueline,; Etter, Lukas,; Gardner, Jared,; Horstkotte, Silke,; Jenkins, Henry,; Kukkonen, Karin,; Lefèvre, Pascal,; Meyer, Christina,; Mikkonen, Kai,; Pedri, Nancy,; Rippl, Gabriele,; Round, Julia,; Schmitz-Emans, Monika,; Smith, Greg M.,; Stein, Daniel,; Surdiacourt, Steven,; Thon, Jan-Noël,
• HerausgeberIn: Stein, Daniel,; Thon, Jan-Noël,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions 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.This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

Table of Contents

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)