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Inventing comics : a new translation of Rodolphe Töpffer's reflections on graphic storytelling, media rhetorics, and aesthetic practice / edited, translated, and introduced by Sergio C. Figueiredo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846, author.
- Series:
- Visual rhetoric.
- Visual rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic novels.
- Graphic arts.
- Cartooning.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Inventing Comics recovers and translates two of Rudolphe Töpffer's nineteenth-century essays on the rhetorical invention of comics, an amateur aesthetic practice of the popular image. Growing out of contemporary philosophical thought, these essays reflect an early iteration of post-critical thought in the cultural and institutional shift from literacy to electracy.
- Contents:
- Rodolphe Tèopffer, media rhetorics, & electracy
- Essay on physiognomy (1845)
- Essay on autography (1842)
- Of a Genevan painter (1830).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781602358713
- 1602358710
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