Kukkonen, Karin, 1980-

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.



9781461937210 9781299775039 9780803248502




Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.
Graphic novels--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)


Electronic Books.

PN6710 / .C668 2013