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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809492903321

Autore

Groensteen Thierry

Titolo

Comics and narration [[electronic resource] /] / Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Ann Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2013

ISBN

1-62103-939-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerAnn <1949 September 1->

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, 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. He te