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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      27 October 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139177849
      9781107025233
      9781107655768
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177849
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 296 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 298 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature after 1945
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    This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel.

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    'The Graphic Novel: An Introduction is a landmark volume which manages the enormous challenge of rendering it possible to speak productively about the graphic novel and of producing a satisfying definition of the medium. The historical and critical toolkit with which it outfits its readers is impressive in both its breadth and depth.'

    Source: Image and Narrative

    'In a ground-breaking and ambitious critical examination of the graphic novel, Baetens and Frey detail the emergence and evolution of this unique medium of storytelling.'

    Jessica Whitelaw Source: Bookbird

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