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 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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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)