Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels / Stein, Daniel / Thon, Jan-Noël -- PART I. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE AND NARRATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS -- Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds / Horstkotte, Silke -- Space, Time, and Causality in Graphic Narratives: An Embodied Approach / Kukkonen, Karin -- Who's Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative / Thon, Jan-Noël -- Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives / Mikkonen, Kai -- PART II. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE BEYOND THE 'SINGLE WORK' -- Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction / Pedri, Nancy -- Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext / Stein, Daniel -- Intermediality, Transmediality, and Graphic Narrative / Rippl, Gabriele / Etter, Lukas -- Comics in the Intersecting Histories of the Window, the Frame, and the Panel / Smith, Greg M. -- PART III. GENRE AND FORMAT HISTORIES OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVE -- A History of the Narrative Comic Strip / Gardner, Jared -- Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure / Lefèvre, Pascal -- Un/Taming the Beast, or Graphic Novels (Re)Considered / Meyer, Christina -- Archival, Ephemeral, and Residual: The Functions of Early Comics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers / Jenkins, Henry -- PART IV. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ACROSS CULTURES -- Anglo-American Graphic Narrative / Round, Julia -- European Graphic Narratives: Toward a Cultural and Mediological History / Baetens, Jan / Surdiacourt, Steven -- Ghostly: 'Asian Graphic Narratives,' Nonnonba, and Manga / Berndt, Jaqueline -- Graphic Narrative as World Literature / Schmitz-Emans, Monika -- Index (Persons) -- Index (Works) |