LEADER 03599nam 22004815 450 001 9910794030803321 005 20230822234449.0 010 $a1-9788-0851-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978808515 035 $a(CKB)4100000011243497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6192096 035 $a(DE-B1597)563397 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978808515 035 $a(OCoLC)1153937406 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011243497 100 $a20200623h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRebuilding Story Worlds $eThe Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters /$fJan Baetens 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ : $cRutgers University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (199 pages) 225 0 $aCritical Graphics 311 $a1-9788-0848-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. A New Series, a New Type of Author -- $t2. A World of Its Own -- $t3. More Than a Possible World -- $t4. Between Chapter and Series -- $t5. A New Fantastic -- $t6. In and Out the Medium -- $t7. Doing Politics in Comics -- $t8. Close-Reading The Leaning Girl -- $t9. A Conversation with Benoît Peeters -- $t10. Birth of an Album: The Theory of the Grain of Sand -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aA collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature. Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten?s work as an architectural designer informs the series? concerns with the preservation of historic buildings. He also includes an original interview with Peeters, which reveals how poststructuralist critical theory influenced their construction of a rhizomatic fictional world, one which has made space for fan contributions through the Alta Plana website. Synthesizing cutting-edge approaches from both literary and visual studies, Rebuilding Story Worlds will give readers a new appreciation for both the aesthetic ingenuity of The Obscure Cities and its nuanced conception of politics. 606 $aGraphic novels$zBelgium$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$zBelgium$xHistory and criticism 610 $aBelgium, Belgian art, François Schuiten, French, Benoît Peeters, comics, comic books, parallel world, architecture, city-state, genre, gender, urban space, urban development, designer, historic building, poststructuralist critical theory, fictional world, visual studies, literary studies, The Obscure Cities. 615 0$aGraphic novels$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a741.5/9493 700 $aBaetens$b Jan, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0176316 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794030803321 996 $aRebuilding Story Worlds$93679712 997 $aUNINA