From comic strips to graphic novels : contributions to the theory and history of graphic narrative / edited by Daniel Stein, Jan-Noël Thon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Daniel.

Thon, Jan-Noël.

Series:

Narratologia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels / Stein, Daniel / Thon, Jan-Noël

PART I. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE AND NARRATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS

Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds / Horstkotte, Silke

Space, Time, and Causality in Graphic Narratives: An Embodied Approach / Kukkonen, Karin

Who's Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative / Thon, Jan-Noël

Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives / Mikkonen, Kai

PART II. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE BEYOND THE 'SINGLE WORK'

Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction / Pedri, Nancy

Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext / Stein, Daniel

Intermediality, Transmediality, and Graphic Narrative / Rippl, Gabriele / Etter, Lukas

Comics in the Intersecting Histories of the Window, the Frame, and the Panel / Smith, Greg M.

PART III. GENRE AND FORMAT HISTORIES OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVE

A History of the Narrative Comic Strip / Gardner, Jared

Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure / Lefèvre, Pascal

Un/Taming the Beast, or Graphic Novels (Re)Considered / Meyer, Christina

Archival, Ephemeral, and Residual: The Functions of Early Comics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers / Jenkins, Henry

PART IV. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ACROSS CULTURES

Anglo-American Graphic Narrative / Round, Julia

European Graphic Narratives: Toward a Cultural and Mediological History / Baetens, Jan / Surdiacourt, Steven

Ghostly: 'Asian Graphic Narratives,' Nonnonba, and Manga / Berndt, Jaqueline

Graphic Narrative as World Literature / Schmitz-Emans, Monika

Index (Persons)

Index (Works)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110282023

311028202X

OCLC:

855547574