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UNINA9910815518003321 |
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Presser Lois |
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Why we harm / / Lois Presser |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (180 p.) |
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Critical Issues in Crime and Society |
Critical issues in crime and society |
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Crime - Sociological aspects |
Criminology |
Violence |
Violent crimes - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Making misery -- We are written: a narrative framework of harm -- Genocide, harm of harms -- Institutionalized harm through meat-eating -- Intimate partner violence: a familiar stranger -- Penal harm: stigma, threat, and retribution -- Synthesis -- Unmaking misery. |
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Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of harmful action. In Why We Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts of acts as diverse as genocide, environmental degradation, war, torture, terrorism, homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to develop an original theoretical framework with which to consider harmful actions and their causes. In doing so, this timely book presents a general theory of harm, revealing the commonalities between actions that impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm is built on stories in which the targets of harm are reduced to one-dimensional characters—sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes much more benign, but still a projection of our own |
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concerns and interests. In our stories of harm, we are licensed to do the harmful deed and, at the same time, are powerless to act differently. Chapter by chapter, Presser examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions. Appearing vastly different from one another at first glance, Presser identifies the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and sustain them. From that point, she maps out strategies for reducing harm. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910484230903321 |
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Autore |
Davies Paul Fisher |
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Titolo |
Comics as Communication : A Functional Approach / / by Paul Fisher Davies |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, , 2634-6389 |
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Comic books, strips, etc - Influence on mass media |
Communication |
Popular culture |
Language and languages - Style |
Comics Studies |
Media and Communication |
Popular Culture |
Stylistics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Prelude: ‘Animating’ the narrative in abstract comics -- 3. Representing Processes in Graphic Narrative -- 4. Games Comics Play: Interpersonal Interaction in Graphic Narrative -- 5. Abstraction and the Interpersonal in Graphic Narrative -- 6. Cohesion and the Textuality of Comics -- 7. The Logical Structures of Comics: |
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Hypotaxis, Parataxis and Text Worlds -- 8. Coda: Metaphor, magic and making meanings -- 9. Conclusion. |
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This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication. The approach is based largely on the work of Michael Halliday, drawing also on the pragmatics of Paul Grice, the Text World Theory of Paul Werth and Joanna Gavins, and ideas from art theory, psychology and narratology. This brings a broad Hallidayan framework of multimodal analysis to comics scholarship, and plays a part in extending that tradition of multimodal linguistics to graphic narrative. |
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