Format:
xvi, 455 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780415729000
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9780367581534
Series Statement:
Routledge companions
Content:
This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine all facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like avant garde comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, aesthetics, adaptation, and reading comics; connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, printmaking) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond. The Routledge Companion to Comics and Graphic Novels expertly organizes representative work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-315-85133-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Comic
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bramlett, Frank
Author information:
Meskin, Aaron
Author information:
Cook, Roy T. 1972-
