Reading graphic novels : genre and narration /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Series: | Narratologia ;
50. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction ; 2. Beginnings, Periods, Movements, and Developments ; 2.1 Underground Roots ; 2.2 Alternative Comics and the First Hype of the Graphic Novel ; 2.3 The 1980s and 1990s: Significant Changes on the (Comic) Book Market.
- 2.4 From 2000 on: the Second Hype of the Graphic Novel 2.5 Graphic Novels and bandes dessinées ; 3. Graphic Novels and the Problem of Categorization ; 3.1 Academic Interest in Comics and Graphic Novels ; 3.2 General Categorization Criteria for Graphic Novels.
- 3.2.1 Lengthiness and Serialization 3.2.2 Seriousness and Authenticity ; 3.2.3 Cartoonicity ; 3.2.4 Complexity ; 3.3 From Prototypes to a Typology of Complexity ; 3.3.1 Format, Medium, Mode, and Genre ; 3.3.2 From Classical Categories to Family Resemblances.
- 3.3.3 Fuzzy Boundaries: From Family Resemblances to Prototypical Categories 3.3.4 From Prototypes to a Typology ; 3.3.4.1 Multilayered Plot and Narration ; 3.3.4.2 Multireferential Use of Color ; 3.3.4.3 Complex Text/Image Relation ; 3.3.4.4 Meaning-Enhancing Panel Design/Layout.
- 3.3.4.5 Structural Performativity 3.3.4.6 Multiplicity of References to Texts/Media ; 3.3.4.7 Self-Referential Narration and Metafictional Devices ; 3.3.5 A Short Parenthesis on Autobiography ; 3.4 Critical Approaches to Comics and Graphic Novels.