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This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster
of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels.
Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof
the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering
readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays
examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal
development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga,
comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics,
adaptation, and translating comics; connections between comics and
other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the
linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics
and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny
animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond. The
Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative
work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural
studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics. More than an
introduction to the study of comics, this book will serve as a
crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the
area, guiding students, scholars, and comics fans alike.
This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster
of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels.
Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof
the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering
readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays
examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal
development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga,
comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics,
adaptation, and translating comics; connections between comics and
other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the
linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics
and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny
animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond. The
Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative
work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural
studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics. More than an
introduction to the study of comics, this book will serve as a
crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the
area, guiding students, scholars, and comics fans alike.
Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's
Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India,
Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of
English on comics written in other languages? These questions and
many more are answered in this volume, which brings together the
two fields of comics research and linguistics to produce
groundbreaking scholarship. With an international cast of
contributors, the book offers novel insights into the role of
language in comics, graphic novels, and single-panel cartoons,
analyzing the intersections between the visual and the verbal.
Contributions examine the relationship between cognitive
linguistics and visual elements as well as interrogate the
controversial claim about the status of comics as a language. The
book argues that comics tell us a great deal about the
sociocultural realities of language, exploring what code switching,
language contact, dialect, and linguistic variation can tell us
about identity - from the imagined and stereotyped to the political
and real.
Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's
Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India,
Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of
English on comics written in other languages? These questions and
many more are answered in this volume, which brings together the
two fields of comics research and linguistics to produce
groundbreaking scholarship. With an international cast of
contributors, the book offers novel insights into the role of
language in comics, graphic novels, and single-panel cartoons,
analyzing the intersections between the visual and the verbal.
Contributions examine the relationship between cognitive
linguistics and visual elements as well as interrogate the
controversial claim about the status of comics as a language. The
book argues that comics tell us a great deal about the
sociocultural realities of language, exploring what code switching,
language contact, dialect, and linguistic variation can tell us
about identity - from the imagined and stereotyped to the political
and real.
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views
of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias.
These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their
authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present.
This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in
comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The
contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic
traditions-manga, bande desinees-from a variety of theoretical
perspectives. The disparate yet coherent picture that emerges
documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics
creators have been crafting for decades.
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