| Publication |
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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| Description |
ix, 232pGreen Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Applying a cognitive approach to reading comics in all their narrative richness and intricacy, Contemporary Comics Storytelling opens an intriguing perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism—its subversion, self-reflexivity, and moral contingency. Its three case studies trace how contemporary comics tie into deep traditions of visual and verbal storytelling, how they reevaluate their own status as fiction, and how the fictional minds of their characters generate complex ethical thought experiments. It brings together comics studies with narratology and literary criticism and, in so doing, provides a new set of tools for evaluating the graphic novel as an emergent literary form.
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| Contents |
How to analyze comics cognitively
Textual traditions in comics: fables, genre, and intertextuality
Fictionality in comics: Tom Strong, storyworlds, and the imagination
Fictional minds in comics: 100 bullets, characterization, and ethics
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| Standard Number |
9780803246379 Hb.
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