Description
This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.
- Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experience
- Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject
- Includes study activities, writing exercises, and essay topics throughout
- Dedicated chapters cover popular sub-genres such as autobiography and literary adaptation
Author: Karin Kukkonen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 09/10/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781118499924
ISBN10: 1118499921
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | General
About the Author
Karin Kukkonen is Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of comics as a narrative form during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dr Kukkonen has published work on metaphors, metafiction, and multi-perspective storytelling in comics. Her recent monograph, Contemporary Comics Storytelling (2013) examines how the comics of recent years engage with the legacy of postmodernism.