Comics and narration
This book is the follow-up to the author's previous work, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of…
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- Full title :Comics and narration / Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Ann Miller.
Summary
This book is the follow-up to the author's previous work, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781621039396, 1621039390, 9781617037719, 1617037710
- oclc:ocn809845203
- LC Classification:PN6710
- Dewey Decimal:741.5/9
Table of Contents
Comics and the test of abstraction -- New insights into sequentiality -- On a few theories of page layout -- An extension of some theoretical propositions -- The question of the narrator -- The subjectivity of the character -- The rhythms of comics -- Is comics a branch of contemporary art?
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