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

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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
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Jonathan C. Evans and Thomas Giddens
  • Loner, Lover, Hero: Superhero Reads Hemingway / Anna Koronowicz
  • The Man of Tomorrow is Looking Out for You: Symbolic and Rhetorical Reading of Graphic Novels / Jonathan C. Evans
  • Enabling Mythologies: Specificity and Myth-Making in TRESE / Ana Micaela Chua
  • Comics and Autobiographical Identity / Valerie Bodell
  • Self Wrought: The Unreliable Narrator / the Unreliable Self in Pat Grant’s BLUE and Mandy Ord’s Rooftops / Elizabeth MacFarlane
  • Otherness in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Autobiography and the Graphic Novel as a Subversion of the Western Gaze / Thayse Madella
  • The Protagonists’ Many ‘Wedges’: Aspects of Seriality in Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For / Lukas Etter
  • Up in the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Cultural Identity in Filipino Superhero Komiks / Emil Francis M. Flores
  • Filipino Humour and the Filipinisation of Foreign Tropes in Macoy’s Taal Volcano Monster vs. Evil Space Paru-Paro / Carljoe Javier
  • Humour and the Contested City in Indian Graphic Novels / Mridula Chari
  • Inevitably Postmodern: The Case of Maus by Art Spiegelman / Simona Porro
  • 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 / Kotaro Nakagaki
  • Queer Revisionism in Lene Ask’s Graphic Novel Hitler, Jesus and Grandpa (‘Hitler, Jesus og Farfar’) / Elisabeth Oxfeldt
  • Rejecting the Generalisation of Maus as a ‘Second Generation’ Text / Erin K. Boone
  • ‘Perseveration on Detail’: Shame and Confession in Memoir Comics / Sarah Richardson
  • V for Valerie: Lesbianism in V for Vendetta / Derek Frasure
  • ‘And All Right, We Need a Woman’: Victimised Heroines and Heroic Victims in Alan Moore’s Quasi-Victorian Graphic Novels / Maciej Sulmicki
  • The Individual Subject in Smooth and Striated Space in Alan Moore’s The Ballad of Halo Jones and Saga of the Swamp Thing / Michael J. Prince
  • Time, Narrative and the Gutter: How Philosophical Thinking Can Make Something Out of Nothing / Julia Moszkowicz
  • Towards a Metaphysics of Comics / Thomas Giddens
  • Sincerity and Speech Balloons: The Shape and Weight of Words in Autobiographical Comics / Leonie Brialey
  • Time of the Photograph, Time of the Comic: Documentary and Art in The Photographer / Eleanor Kent
  • Prequel, Sequel or Equal: The Transmedia Vampire and the Graphic Novel / Simon Bacon
  • Space and Time in Graphic Novel Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays: A Semiotic Approach / Anna Wołosz
  • Imaginary Lives: Edgar Allan Poe as a Comic Book Character / Ana González-Rivas Fernández and Francisco Saez de Adana
  • Adoption of Graphic Novel Features in Non-Fiction Genres / Barry Natusch
  • Viewer as Reader: Modes of Encounter with Juxtaposed Image Narratives / Bruce Mutard
  • From Comic to Hypercomic / Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
  • Digital Pages: Reading, Comics and Screens / Jayms Clifford Nichols.