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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463188403321

Autore

Miodrag Hannah

Titolo

Comics and language [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining critical discourse on the form / / Hannah Miodrag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013

ISBN

1-62103-955-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Criticism, Textual

Graphic novels - History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc - Authorship

Discourse analysis, Literary

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Language in comics -- pt. 2. Comics as language -- pt. 3. Images as language.

Sommario/riassunto

This title challenges many of the key assumptions about the 'grammar' and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that it argues will better serve the field by offering a consistent means for communicating critical theory in the scholarship.