Contemporary comics storytelling /Karin Kukkonen.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Frontiers of narrative series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
How to analyze comics cognitively -- Textual traditions in comics: fables, genre, and intertextuality -- Fictionality in comics: Tom Strong, storyworlds, and the imagination -- Fictional minds in comics: 100 bullets, characterization, and ethics.
Applying a cognitive approach to reading comics in all their narrative richness and intricacy, this book shares a perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism-its subversion, self-reflexivity, and moral contingency.
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Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism. Graphic novels--History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric)