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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. The graphic novel is an artefact of visual images and written words; a complex and expressive form tackling a multitude of issues and themes across the globe. The graphic novel is a tool: of self-expression and personal identity; of cultural understanding and philosophical exploration; of history and hope. Comics and graphic novels traverse themes such as heroism, identity, philosophy, gender, history, and colonialism—and these are just some of the topics encountered on the pages of this diverse collection of perspectives and analyses. Incorporating chapters from authors all over the world, this volume examines and expounds the rich tapestry of meanings, expressions, and cultural insights found in the medium of graphic fiction. From concerns with comics’ definition and history, to examinations of both seminal and neglected works as well as the medium’s future, Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel demonstrates the deeply ingrained relevance of comics to contemporary culture.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Jonathan C. Evans and Thomas Giddens Part 1: Imagining the Hero Loner, Lover, Hero: Superhero Reads Hemingway Anna Koronowicz The Man of Tomorrow is Looking Out for You: Symbolic and Rhetorical Reading of Graphic Novels Jonathan C. Evans Enabling Mythologies: Specificity and Myth-Making in TRESE Ana Micaela Chua Part 2: Autobiography and Identity Comics and Autobiographical Identity Valerie Bodell Self Wrought: The Unreliable Narrator / the Unreliable Self in Pat Grant's BLUE and Mandy Ord's Rooftops Elizabeth MacFarlane Otherness in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: The Autobiography and the Graphic Novel as a Subversion of the Western Gaze Thayse Madella The Protagonists' Many 'Wedges': Aspects of Seriality in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For Lukas Etter Part 3: Coping with Colonialism Up in the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Cultural Identity in Filipino Superhero Komiks Emil Francis M. Flores Filipino Humour and the Filipinisation of Foreign Tropes in Macoy's Taal Volcano Monster vs. Evil Space Paru-Paro Carljoe Javier Humour and the Contested City in Indian Graphic Novels Mridula Chari Part 4: The Trauma of History Inevitably Postmodern: The Case of Maus by Art Spiegelman Simona Porro The Atomic Holocaust from the Perspective of Shojo: From Sanpei Shirato's A Vanishing Girl to Fumiyo Kono's In a Corner of This World Kotaro Nakagaki Queer Revisionism in Lene Ask's Graphic Novel Hitler, Jesus and Grandpa ('Hitler, Jesus og Farfar') Elisabeth Oxfeldt Rejecting the Generalisation of Maus as a 'Second Generation' Text Erin K. Boone 'Perseveration on Detail': Shame and Confession in Memoir Comics Sarah Richardson Part 5: On Alan Moore V for Valerie: Lesbianism in V for Vendetta Derek Frasure 'And All Right, We Need a Woman': Victimised Heroines and Heroic Victims in Alan Moore's Quasi-Victorian Graphic Novels Maciej Sulmicki The Individual Subject in Smooth and Striated Space in Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones and Saga of the Swamp Thing Michael J. Prince Part 6: Philosophy of Form Time, Narrative and the Gutter: How Philosophical Thinking Can Make Something Out of Nothing Julia Moszkowicz Towards a Metaphysics of Comics Thomas Giddens Sincerity and Speech Balloons: The Shape and Weight of Words in Autobiographical Comics Leonie Brialey Time of the Photograph, Time of the Comic: Documentary and Art in The Photographer Eleanor Kent Part 7: Transgressing Boundaries Prequel, Sequel or Equal: The Transmedia Vampire and the Graphic Novel Simon Bacon Space and Time in Graphic Novel Adaptations of Shakespeare's Plays: A Semiotic Approach Anna Wolosz Imaginary Lives: Edgar Allan Poe as a Comic Book Character Ana Gonzalez-Rivas Fernandez and Francisco Saez de Adana Adoption of Graphic Novel Features in Non-Fiction Genres Barry Natusch Part 8: Changing Boundaries Viewer as Reader: Modes of Encounter with Juxtaposed Image Narratives Bruce Mutard From Comic to Hypercomic Daniel Merlin Goodbrey Digital Pages: Reading, Comics and Screens Jayms Clifford Nichols

About the Author :
Jonathan C. Evans is a PhD student at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, USA. His primary focus is the use of visual rhetoric in its application in comic books and graphic novels. Thomas Giddens is Lecturer in Law at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, UK. His primary research is concerned with graphic justice: that is, the use of comics (and other areas of popular and aesthetic culture) in the exploration of criminal justice, criminology, and legal theory.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848881990
  • Publisher: Inter/Connexions
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1848881991
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2019
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English


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