Contemporary Comics Storytelling

Informationen zum Autor Karin Kukkonen, Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St. John's College, University of Oxford, is the author of Studying Comics and Graphic Novels and coeditor of Metalepsis in Popular Culture. Klappentext Karin Kukkonen, Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St. John¿s College, University of Oxford, is the author of Studying Comics and Graphic Novels and coeditor of Metalepsis in Popular Culture. "If you love comics, you will want to read this [book] as it will provide you with a new lens from which to read them./div>--Christopher Lewis"Dad of Divas" (09/06/2013) Zusammenfassung Opens an intriguing perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism - its subversion! self-reflexivity! and moral contingency. Inhaltsverzeichnis  List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How to Analyze Comics Cognitively 2. Textual Traditions in Comics: Fables, Genre, and Intertextuality 3. Fictionality in Comics: Tom Strong, Storyworlds, and the Imagination 4. Fictional Minds in Comics: 100 Bullets, Characterization, and Ethics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Karin Kukkonen
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9780803246379
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4637-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Frontiers of Narrative; Frontiers of Narrative
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies