Loading...

Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

ISBN: 978-1-118-49992-4

July 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

192 pages

Digital Evaluation Copy

Request Digital Evaluation Copy
Description

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.

  • Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experience
  • Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject
  • Includes study activities, writing exercises, and essay topics throughout
  • Dedicated chapters cover popular sub-genres such as autobiography and literary adaptation
About the Author

Karin Kukkonen is Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to narrative in comics, graphic novels and eighteenth-century fiction. Dr Kukkonen has published work on metaphors, metafiction, and multi-perspective storytelling in comics. Her recent monograph, Contemporary Comics Storytelling (2013) examines how the comics of recent years engage with the legacy of postmodernism.