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What happens when nothing happens : boredom and everyday life in contemporary comics / Greice Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Greice, author.
- Series:
- Studies in European comics and graphic novels ; 5.
- Studies in European comics and graphic novels ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic novels--History and criticism.
- Graphic novels.
- Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Boredom in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: the relationship between comics and everyday life and boredom. A brief history of boredom ; Boredom and the everyday in comics ; Four approaches towards the everyday
- Part two: the ambiguity of boredom in terms of an aesthetic phenomenon. The poetics of boredom
- Part three: the narratological perspective of the dialectics of boredom. Boredom as a narratological concept ; What happens when nothing happens
- Part four: focus on the works of Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine. The little nothings of Lewis Trondheim ; Adrian Tomine: lost gazes, detached minds ; Chris Ware: resisting narrative immersion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223).
- ISBN:
- 9789462700734
- 9462700737
- OCLC:
- 936533437
- Publisher Number:
- 99972821688
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