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The graphic novel : an introduction
- Title
- The graphic novel : an introduction / by Jan Baetens, Univeristy of Leuven, Belgium ; Hugo Frey, University of Chichester, UK.
- Author
- Baetens, Jan
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Frey, Hugo
- Description
- ix, 286 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: What is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge introductions to literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge introductions to literature.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Graphic Novel, a Special Type of Comics -- Adult Comics before the Graphic Novel: From Moral Panic to Pop Art Sensationalism, 1945-c.1967 -- Underground Comix and Mainstream Evolutions, 1968-c.1980 -- "Not Just for Kids": Clever Comics and the New Graphic Novels -- Understanding Panel and Page Layouts -- Drawing and Style, Word and Image -- The Graphic Novel as a Specific Form of Storytelling -- The Graphic Novel and Literary Fiction: Exchanges, Interplays, and Fusions -- Nostalgia and the Return of History -- A short bibliographic guide.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3535
- ISBN
- 9781107025233
- 1107025230
- 9781107655768
- 1107655765
- LCCN
- 2014010130
- OCLC
- 881386542
- Author
- Baetens, Jan, author.
- Title
- The graphic novel : an introduction / by Jan Baetens, Univeristy of Leuven, Belgium ; Hugo Frey, University of Chichester, UK.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge introductions to literatureCambridge introductions to literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Frey, Hugo, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3535