Cultural excavation and formal expression in the graphic novel / / edited by Jonathan C. Evans, Thomas Giddens.

• TeilnehmendeR: C. Evans, Jonathan,; Giddens, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Loner, Lover, Hero: Superhero Reads Hemingway /; The Man of Tomorrow is Looking Out for You: Symbolic and Rhetorical Reading of Graphic Novels /; Enabling Mythologies: Specificity and Myth-Making in TRESE /; Comics and Autobiographical Identity /; Self Wrought: The Unreliable Narrator / the Unreliable Self in Pat Grant’s BLUE and Mandy Ord’s Rooftops /; Otherness in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Autobiography and the Graphic Novel as a Subversion of the Western Gaze /; The Protagonists’ Many ‘Wedges’: Aspects of Seriality in Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For /; Up in the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Cultural Identity in Filipino Superhero Komiks /; Filipino Humour and the Filipinisation of Foreign Tropes in Macoy’s Taal Volcano Monster vs. Evil Space Paru-Paro /; Humour and the Contested City in Indian Graphic Novels /; Inevitably Postmodern: The Case of Maus by Art Spiegelman /; The Atomic Holocaust from the Perspective of Shōjo: From Sanpei Shirato’s A Vanishing Girl to Fumiyo Kōno’s In a Corner of This World /; Queer Revisionism in Lene Ask’s Graphic Novel Hitler, Jesus and Grandpa (‘Hitler, Jesus og Farfar’) /; Rejecting the Generalisation of Maus as a ‘Second Generation’ Text /; ‘Perseveration on Detail’: Shame and Confession in Memoir Comics /; V for Valerie: Lesbianism in V for Vendetta /; ‘And All Right, We Need a Woman’: Victimised Heroines and Heroic Victims in Alan Moore’s Quasi-Victorian Graphic Novels /; The Individual Subject in Smooth and Striated Space in Alan Moore’s The Ballad of Halo Jones and Saga of the Swamp Thing /; Time, Narrative and the Gutter: How Philosophical Thinking Can Make Something Out of Nothing /; Towards a Metaphysics of Comics /; Sincerity and Speech Balloons: The Shape and Weight of Words in Autobiographical Comics /; Time of the Photograph, Time of the Comic: Documentary and Art in The Photographer /; Prequel, Sequel or Equal: The Transmedia Vampire and the Graphic Novel /; Space and Time in Graphic Novel Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays: A Semiotic Approach /; Imaginary Lives: Edgar Allan Poe as a Comic Book Character /; Adoption of Graphic Novel Features in Non-Fiction Genres /; Viewer as Reader: Modes of Encounter with Juxtaposed Image Narratives /; From Comic to Hypercomic /; Digital Pages: Reading, Comics and Screens /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848881991
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jonathan C. Evans, Thomas Giddens.